The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
Keep your luxury hotels
It’s the cheap and cheerful taverns that offer a home for any traveller
PMQs: Bullying Boris silences his own benches
Bluster and evasion come too easily to the prime minister
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
History in the Age of Woke
Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Christopher Rouse: 5th symphony (Naxos)
What Rouse wrote was an intimate series of love letters to the orchestra