Simon Hoggart’s week: No country for ordinary folk
More and more, Britain is run by the rich and well-placed on behalf of the rich and well-placed
Simon Hoggart’s week: Keeping the good life in the family
Fifa is a cosy organisation which – like Soviet Union party trusties – looks after its own
Book festivals bring out the brains in Britons
Jonathan Jones: Turn off the TV, put down the papers, and take a tour of Britain's book festivals. We are a lot more cultured than you think
Puffin of Puffins? Why, Goodnight Mister Tom of course
Alison Flood: With all due respect, small children, your choice of the admittedly excellent Artemis Fowl as the 'Puffin of Puffins' is deranged and wrong. It should clearly be MY choice: Goodnight Mister Tom
Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language by Robert McCrum
Deborah Cameron examines Robert McCrum's history of linguistic globalisation
Literature’s great sister acts
Sarah Crown: Fiction has long outstripped psychology in exploring the bond between sisters. Who are your favourite female siblings in literature?
Trying to revive the Renaissance
Jonathan Jones: One of the things that attracted me to the story of Leonardo and Michelangelo's titanic clash in Florence was the chance to annoy revisionist art historians
Poetically speaking at the Hay festival
The question of what makes a poem a poem has reared its head among this year's festivalgoers, inspiring a search for a useful definition
National Theatre Wales puts Cymru centre-stage
Michael Billington: According to a lively debate at Hay festival, immersive theatre is opening our eyes to the rich diversity of Wales
Poster poems: the Hay festival
Billy Mills: The genre of 'poems about literary festivals' is a narrow one, so get writing – even a haiku about portable toilets will do
Hay festival: ‘Climate change is a long struggle’
Global warming has always energised Hay audiences – but this year the mood is much more sober, says John Harris
This is a healthy moment for art
Grayson Perry: We've got a Conservative government to fight against. It might not feel like it, but this is a healthy time for art
Why was Hay dominated by politics?
Sky's Adam Boulton was only one of a plethora of politicos who descended on the book festival this year
Author Henning Mankell aboard Gaza flotilla stormed by Israeli troops
Fears for safety of bestselling Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell after surprise attack results in at least 10 deaths