You can find true happiness, wrote Mujir al-Din, the 15th-century historian buried on the Mount of Olives, “eating a banana in the shade of the Dome of the Rock”

The erosion of the hard fought-for right to protest is being met with complacency. It's time to speak up

An explosion of "self-pay" procedures is the beginning of the end

Mueller is discreet, disciplined and on the President's case

Young people are drinking and smoking less, taking fewer drugs and having fewer babies

Zoe Williams and Henry Dimbleby argue over whether Christmas dinner is a grand old tradition—or a bland meal that should be relegated to the past

Tyndale’s radical take on the structure of Christianity prodded into life a debate on democracy that changed our nation forever

The European Commission seems unable to negotiate a strategic vision of Europe’s future in the wake of Brexit. That presents you, Monsieur President, with a unique opportunity

Smile or die

We should applaud the brave women who spoke out. But the obligation to prevent harassment falls on all of us—and means questioning the nature of insecure work