We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy
We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy
More classical rhetoric from the prime minister...
We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy
We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: workism versus anti-workism
Workism and anti-workism are competing critiques of the way we live now — and they're both wrong
More classical rhetoric from the prime minister...
Some of Alastair Stewart’s friends will fight for him — but too many of us will let him simply disappear
Homeowners will be able to vote on a street-by-street basis under radical — but traditional — new plans
There's a link between what happens behind closed doors and acts of public violence
The past four years have been a depressing demonstration of how the Left lost its way
It isn’t just Big Ben that should stay silent today. Stop all the clocks.
The steadfast familiarity of the Just a Minute host is what another of our great institutions is lacking
They're nostalgic, they're gullible, and they're scared of diversity — all these myths have been debunked
They're nostalgic, they're gullible, and they're scared of diversity — all these myths have been debunked
Homeowners will be able to vote on a street-by-street basis under radical — but traditional — new plans
Housewifery in the Fifties literally drove women insane; it's Medieval wives who had it all
In East Fife, Scottish nationalism has slowly become more attractive
If the duchy is to survive Brexit, something must be done about its not-so-splendid isolation
Self-identification puts women, children — and trans people themselves — at risk
Norway has eradicated child road deaths. With the same political will we could fix our own intractable issues
It is a metaphor for the defeatism of postmodernism
The geeky former tech executive has a unique bipartisan appeal
Today's rave revisionism points to a culture in decline
Five of the most thought-provoking, from the archives...
Douglas Murray missed out Vasily Grossman's all important prequel
Medieval-style cults headed by dysfunctional people are rising to power online
Euan Blair has some different ideas from his father
The Devizes MP touches on community, culture and Christianity
In a globalised world we need to hold our neighbours to higher standards
From international relations to art and culture, the 1920s made the world of today
From international relations to art and culture, the 1920s made the world of today
A century ago today the US banned the sale of alcohol, destroying its native breweries and empowering the Mafia
The 2020s are merely re-enacting the culture wars of the 1920s
A century ago the first women graduated from Oxford — and another obstacle to female emancipation fell
Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future
Long before the swinging Sixties, the USSR initiated free love, gay rights and legal abortion. The results were unexpected...
A century ago only the Polish army stood between Bolsheviks and a severely weakened Europe
The carve-up of the region after the First World War led to the fanaticism and conflict of today
Giles Fraser talks to Adam Rutherford about his new book.
Freddie Sayers gets opposing views from Peter Franklin and Phillip Blond on whether the Hungarian Prime Minister's dangerous reputation is justified.
Giles talks to the happiness expert about his journey from the humanities to science, why individualism is making us depressed and how we can be more happy.
Giles talks to the former Telegraph editor about becoming a Catholic, how the licence fee is dividing 'somewheres' and 'anywheres' and why he's never liked the Conservative Party.
Giles talks to the historian and former Supreme Court Justice about leaving academia behind for a career in law, the problem with human rights and the art of persuasion.
The PM's classical education instilled a rhetorical world view well-suited to our times
The PM's classical education instilled a rhetorical world view well-suited to our times
Some of Alastair Stewart’s friends will fight for him — but too many of us will let him simply disappear
A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within
A new book argues that that both Left and Right are now engaged in class war — against the poor
Holly Whitaker's book damning the programme is partly ludicrous and wholly cruel
It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate
Terrence Malick's new film interrogates a moral dilemma with pernicious modern relevance
Sebastian Haffner’s powerful 1939 memoir Defying Hitler can help us make sense of current uncertain times
Kurt Anderson's Fantasyland explores the US tendency to blur fact with fiction
Tim Jackson's Prosperity Without Growth shows us how to bring the global economy back into the service of human flourishing
Richard Landes's much underrated Heaven on Earth explores our lust for Armageddon