Europe

Diary: by Harry Mount

my late godmother, the marchioness of dufferin and ava (1941-2020), had  a unique combination of talents. i’ve tried to record som...

Tár: Cate Blanchett deserves an Oscar for her role in this disturbing and divisive new film

todd field’s first film for sixteen years,  tár  – starring cate blanchett as lydia tár, an american superstar composer-conductor ...

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, by Nigel Biggar

colonialism: a moral reckoning  nigel biggar william collins, £25, 480 pages  nigel biggar’s colonialism: a moral reckoning must r...

That unholy parody: Why the 'It’s just jolly Dionysus' claim makes things even worse

most will be familiar by now with how the controversy over the last supper parody during the olympics' opening ceremony was followed by an i...

Thomas Casemore

The women fighting to stop compulsory sex education in Welsh schools

a few weeks ago i took my daughters aged 2 and 3 to the tate britain to look at some art, but also to try out the two children’s play areas ...

Olenka Hamilton

Don’t expect the EU Iron Curtain to crack if Czechs change same-sex marriage law

a cultural iron curtain now very much divides the two halves of the eu. to the west, are the more progressive, ethnically diverse and secula...

Rheingold: Opera as life and death at the Royal Opera House

michael white enjoys an environmental rheingold, a quest for happiness and an epic celebration of stephen sondheim. as someone put it to me ...

The problem with the 'new allegations' against St John Paul II

as a child in poland in the 1950s, my mother lived squeezed into a single room in the centre of krakow, with her father, brother, aunt, uncl...

Olenka Hamilton

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, by John T McGreevy

catholicism: a global history from the french revolution to pope francis john t mcgreevy  ww norton & co, £22.99, 528 pages the glo...

Deacon Stephen Morgan

Pope's Ukraine war envoy says world's challenges can only be solved through 'multilateralism'

rome --  pope francis’s personal envoy for the war in ukraine has said that multilateralism, meaning cooperation among various states a...