Alexander Larman on the newest release in Mick Herron’s best-selling and critically acclaimed Jackson Lamb crime series: Slough House

Sometimes it’s hard to get anyone right

Progressive authoritarianism is doing its best to ruin democracy for the rest of us

Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn

Governors of boarding schools are supposed to be custodians, not political activists

Impeachment was a chance for Congress to reassert its primacy. Senators chose not to

The outstanding Offenburg String Trio play a gripping compilation of some of the most richly coloured and painfully consequential music you are ever likely to hear

The former director of the British School at Athens, who died last month at the age of 103, had a productivity in his old age that was both rare and admirable

Nigel Jones, a chastened practitioner of writing biographies, warns that writing someone’s life can be a dangerous venture

While living in a world of constant confusion, at least we can have some idea about how a person might behave depending on which country they are from