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A gift to pimps and traffickers
South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state
A defence of capitalism
Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual
Can the BBC be saved from itself
The BBC is still mired in liberal groupthink
Land of ghosts and legends
In search of Crusaders in chainmail and a city of the dead in the Caucasus Mountains
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
Taking flight
Why planes make such a great setting for films
The great Wren
Marking the 100th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death
Hipsters: eco-friendly heirs to William Morris
Middle class millennials in search of the good life