The debate over the burqa is not just about religion, but about identity, security, and how we choose to live together as a ...

Permissive authority is highly insidious as it fosters a system where individuals freely participate in their own control.

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London has become the best place in the world to eat out. Of course, there are a thousand other cities with marvellous food, ...

Harper Lee’s writing career was brief, but her single novel became one of the most famous in American history.

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After Handel introduced Italian opera to London, Georgians and Victorians went to performances to wear their diamonds and ...

Five years later, another notable TV documentary, Adam Curtis’s The Great British Housing Disaster, a coruscating, detailed ...

Jonathan Freedland has written a very good book on precisely such unlucky people: German patriots who hated Hitler and ...

Robert Langdon is a symbologist, and that is the meta joke – the only joke – of Dan Brown’s series of blockbusters, of which ...

It comes as a surprise for anyone assuming that ghosthunters are easily fooled scaredy cats to learn that there ...

A great map library can be a wondrous thing to behold, as James Cheshire’s engaging, deeply satisfying and elegantly designed ...