The debate over the niqab—whether it is oppressive, and even if it should be banned—has recently resurfaced. It is a recurring theme, bubbling up in the pages of our newspapers every year or so....

Graham Robb says that the idea for his latest book, The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe, "arrived one evening like an unwanted visitor". He was planning a cycling trip along...

Last week I wrote a blog post arguing that it could be a disastrous decision for the UK to scrap the Human Rights Act 1998 and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. First, it is not...

Wendy Lower is a historian and a consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Her latest book is "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields", which...

Fundamentally, I say “you, go girls” It’s interesting for me as a middle-aged feminist and mother to observe feminism coming back to the fore. I support this new wave, but I also see that it...

"Proserpine" by Hannah Habibi and Zarek Rahman, a reconstruction of Rossetti's painting of the same name "The Bridesmaid" by Hannah Habibi and Zarek Rahman, a reconstruction of Millais' painting...

Distinctions between "discoveries" and technological "spinoffs" are meaningless, even misleading

In early August the evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker wrote an essay in the New Republic entitled "Science Is Not Your Enemy". It was subtitled "An impassioned plea to neglected novelists,...

Nobel prize-winner Manfred Eigen's latest work lays out the case for why evolution by natural selection is a "law of physics"

The image of Bridget alone in her pyjamas has haunted single womenSo, she’s back. A fictional character that became a byword for desperate singletons has reared her chardonnay-addled head once...