A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Bunty Malone
Best-selling novelist
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
Renato and Me
David Smith recalls his association with Renato Curcio, the former leader of Italy’s ultra-left terrorist group the Red Brigades
Murders for late February
From countryside crimes to mysteries on the waves, Jeremy Black recommends further reading from the British Library Crime Classics collection
Meeting others to worship is a lifeline
Criminalising corporate worship is both damaging and dangerous for Scotland, says Rev. Dr William Philip
Classic Dom
See Lee out back about the merch, there’s grenade keyrings and everything
Not Justin time
Sarah Ditum says that the focus on Timberlake as a bad agent conveniently forgets the machine behind him
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
Grand old warrior
Nigel Jones recalls the time he spent in the home of the legendary German writer Ernst Jünger
The problem with American isolationism
Despite the histrionics of domestic American opinion, a single rocket attack in Syria does not indicate that Biden’s foreign policy is likely to be more aggressive