Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and ...

As a long-time devotee of Desert Island Discs, I was tickled by the premise of Radio 4’s The Island, starring Stephen Mangan.

Instead, Tom Oxenham and Simon Alcock take a more literary approach to their script, writing it like a first-person novel. Mangan – who really did appear on Desert Island Discs earlier ths month - ...