Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri

An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting

Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age

The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country

The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law

The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics