In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

“Be a selfish bastard” counts among the entrepreneur’s maxims.

The future of the Inflation Reduction Act hangs in the balance following the inauguration of Donald Trump.

In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive?

In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil from which nothing ...

On 10 April 1925, the day The Great Gatsby was published, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Max Perkins, his editor, asking that ...

Keir Starmer is correct: the Prevent programme failed to comprehend Axel Rudakubana’s obsession with violence.

In January 2009, as Gordon Brown’s government argued over whether to build a third runway at Heathrow, the senior civil ...

The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.

A new book explores three generations of dancers who looked beyond the stage to turn movement into a tool of political ...

Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East. As the first phase of a long-awaited ceasefire and prisoner ...