A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.

D.H. ROBINSON Millennial “progressive” politics have failed. They have worsened our country and undermined democracy itself

Michael Henderson on Radio

Alexandra Wilson charts opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives

The Anglo-American state vs the universities

Michael Bentley recalls Maurice Cowling, the Conservative commentator and historian whose books on a variety of topics influenced thought on the right of the party