Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
Bunty Malone
Best-selling novelist
Cheryl Partington
Media Don
Sandy Devereux
Smallscreen scriptwriter
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Arthur Bryant’s floating doters
W. Sydney Robinson, the historian’s latest biographer, discovered that his subject was without scruple in matters of the heart
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Saving Rugby from BLM Marxism
Governors of boarding schools are supposed to be custodians, not political activists
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
Which political diaries are worth taking seriously?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart the craft and value of the political diarist
Joined-up strategy?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how US and British defence and security reviews depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview
Experts, know your place
Morality isn’t scientific
Beware the power of muscle memory
The ability to train our malleable minds is both a blessing and a curse—as the grand social re-engineering experiment of Covid-19 lockdowns is revealing