The grand old man and the ingénue queen
The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch
Present-day lessons from past masters
Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
A lighter shade of grey
This scholarly, readable and objective book will be the standard biography of Sir Edward Grey for decades to come
A Royal fogey reassessed
Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism
Too much of a maverick
Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay