Graham Stewart meets the historian and biographer who is as familiar with today’s leaders as with the great figures of the past

Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right

John Humphrys’ A Day Like Today touches lightly on his early career, which is a shame

James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

Giles Udy on Godless Utopia by Roland Elliott Brown

David Herman reviews The Tyranny of Virtue by Robert Boyers

Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe

Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael

Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.

This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation