Bohemia, SW3
Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane
Unmasking of a libertine lord
With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
A principled non-resignation
Does Trudy Harrison still think opponents of the coal mine are in cloud cuckoo land?
An island for asylum
Is the Home Office serious about sending asylum seekers to a British island?
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
Why is atheism no longer cool?
How the New Atheists failed to make God go away
The FARC and me
David Smith recalls time spent with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: the most murderous army of insurrection in Latin America’s modern history
You can’t make it up
Lisa Hilton asks whether Twitter mobs should be able to police the imagination of novelists and playwrights
No Russian money for Dom
Grieve accidentally sends begging emails to eurosceptics
How the government’s maternity bill seeks to deny the reality of sex
The avoidance of the word “woman” in relation to pregnancy is part of a wider assault on women’s rights from transgender activists
Hindemith: Wind sonatas (Warner)
Paul Hindemith’s music is extremely well-made, intelligent, civilised, and moderately witty — so why has it all but vanished?