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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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
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on