Richard J Evans challenges Michael Gove’s history agenda.

Bohemian Rhapsodies.

An interview with McKenzie Wark.

The NS of 1913 may have been in the vanguard for women’s rights yet its tone was hectoring, even patronising. But today’s popular feminists should not forget that the pioneers’ concerns still have weight.

"The estuary doesn’t yield all its secrets on first glance. An hour or so out from the Isle of Sheppey, we arrive at seven bizarre constructions that look as if they belong in War of the Worlds..."

The Bundesliga has gone back to basics.

A C Grayling: What makes us human?

Faith is the redemption of solitude.

A novelist's account of depression and the struggle to find words to describe it.

Claire Tomalin looks back on her time as an NS staffer.

Playing Top Trumps inside your own head.

What we need today is a Thatcher of the left: a leader who would repeat Thatcher’s gesture in the opposite direction, transforming the entire field of presuppositions shared by today’s political elite.

The 50th anniversary this August of the Great Train Robbery and the death of its mastermind, Bruce Reynolds, recall our peculiar romantic fondness for thieves. Duncan Campbell, who knew many of the old-style robbers, on why we all still love a villain.

Why do religious stories continue to mean so much to so many of us, even to the self-described “new, new atheists”?