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Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history

Why are more and more women are opting to freeze their eggs as a form of fertility insurance policy?

Hephzibah Anderson plants her spring bulbs

Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?

The case for tentative optimism about transatlantic relations

This recording is an absolute must-hear, one of the summits of this difficult year

Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings

Why didn’t Dom do data?

A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?

Hannah Betts admires a pair of quality-obsessed British labels