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Why do we persist with Opera?
Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it
Half a century of the World at War
It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think,the greatest
Colin Watson and the lost art of figurative painting
In an age when figurative art had fallen out of fashion, Watson fixed his gazed unerringly on the mystery of life as it is
A sunny depiction of dark times
Unlike so many, Heffer likes his fellow countrymen and countrywomen
Sparkling sweep of the turbulent south
A new history beautifully distils revolutionary cultures in post-Napoleonic Europe
The layers of ancient Rome
Emperors existed at the intersection of many seeming incompatibilities
Searching for sense amid chaos
What makes Traditionalism controversial and alien is also what makes it important
Putin’s assault on Russian memory
Nowhere is the weaponisation of history greater than in today’s Russia
Is the age of the Secret Service over?
Intelligence was more important than the individuals who risked their lives providing it
Refuting the flat Earth fallacy
This rollicking adventure indicts lazy and self-satisfied readings of the past