Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.

Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?

Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak

Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?

Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves

All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless

Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought

She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power

We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance

Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania

The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success

Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house

Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture

On the outsize influence of small magazines

A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England

Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches

There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick

Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting

Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure

Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?

Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld

Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate

Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit

Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked

This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky

In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man

Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter

These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six

On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots

People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?

April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats