Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
It is time to bury Boris
Every day of Johnson as PM is another day in which the Tory party sinks deeper into crisis
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
