Anglo-Saxons, Clement Attlee and love for our mascot

Prince Harry is not setting a precedent with his recent appearance in court

The philosopher charged with defending campus free speech is robustly independent, happy to take on vested interests — and not easily pigeonholed

Drug addiction is not something that just happens to you

Field Marshal William Slim was not only Britain’s greatest military field commander, but our finest soldier-writer, too

Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior

The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

The Past is no longer something that Was, but one of many possible solutions

Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole

On the extraordinary talent of a troubled composer