Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history

When we set up the Reclaim Party, we met every type of establishment obstacle

Frederic Raphael reveals how Paul Cartledge makes the case for a central historical role for Oedipus’s home town

Claudia Savage-Gore
blames the tutors for the darlings’ home- schooling problems

Dan Hitchens weighs the charge sheet against baby boomers, who stand accused of creating a precarious world of low pay and endless work

In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver

Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines

There is a lesson here for those who prefer to sharpen their knives on the whetstone of grievance

Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business

Daniel Johnson says the fact that Foucault scholars now overlook his advocacy for sex with boys shows the great libertine failed to overturn Judaeo-Christian morality