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 ...

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, ...

Of the many galling facts in Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s forensic account of how Spotify upended the music industry, most exasperating is that the Swedish company didn’t initially set out to be a music ...

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 ...

“The ancient struggle with Russia for the mastery of the Baltic” has returned, proclaims Oliver Moody in the opening pages of Baltic: The Future of Europe. This new book is a compelling but, at times, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“Look at these pictures carefully, and you will see what happened in Darfur.” On the back of a wrinkled drawing, encased in an acid-proof pocket, a child has left a handwritten message. Mohammed ...

As this crazy and dangerous US trade war begins, it is not hard to see why Donald Trump and JD Vance hate the European Union so much. Europe has the size and scale not only to retaliate against the ...

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 ...