It has been known for a long time that Russia poses a threat to Europe—first and foremost to countries in the north and east, starting with Ukraine, but also beyond. It has been known that Vladimir ...

What is the biggest problem? Insufficient love in the world. A failing sense of justice. Certain individuals think they can impose their will on people. They think reality can be manipulated. But ...

Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga joins Ellen and Alona to discuss political attacks on American history, the challenges facing academia in the UK—and how future generations will view England’s ...

Sticking plaster politics and the sticky realities of the housing crisis ...

The obsessives tally 18 Beatles songs mentioning “sun” or “sunshine”. That fits with their luminous place in the national story: a burst of colour and sound that presaged the passing of postwar ...

The Ideological Brain leads with an account of an experiment that is worth reiterating. It’s called the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and it shows its participants a selection of cards on a screen. All ...

Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and, fatally, Mary I, may have lived at a time of extreme political volatility but, according to religious historian Owen Chadwick, ...

One of the biggest TV shows on Earth at the moment is a show that, in all likelihood, you’ve never even heard of. It’s called The Chosen and it’s a dramatisation of the life of Jesus Christ. Although ...

In my village there’s a beautiful, tiny old church that dates to the 13th century. Its chalk-white wooden ceilings are adorned with red flowers, a gift to all those who lift their heads in wonder. It ...

As I inch closer to 30, the world—or society as we know it—seems to lurch closer to collapse. While my younger self certainly had quaint suburban fantasies of a nuclear family, including a gaggle of ...

I first came to Manhattan some 30 years ago and, as a performer, my visits coincided with an equilibrium in the city’s history between the scary disorder of the 1970s (I remember the story of a friend ...

In his recent Richard Dimbleby Lecture for the BBC, Gareth Southgate voiced the challenge facing him when he took over the England men’s football team in 2016: “how do you build a positive culture not ...