The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Revolutionary faith
Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution
Brunelleschi’s egg
Demythologising a Renaissance genius
A writer unsure who he wanted to be
Emile Zola: A Determined Life by Robert Lethbridge; Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
The deep humanity of books
Manuscripts have weathered the vicissitudes of time only thanks to human passion
Old Man River
For centuries, the Po has been the lifeblood of Northern Italy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change