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Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”

Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer

The story of wine is a glorious story which illuminates the topics of more conventional histories

A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces

Keir Starmer’s weakness is a lack of healthy scepticism for the wisdom of experts

Those who are invested in being ‘on the right side of history’ might like to reflect on yesterday’s judgement

Whose jobs will the new face of No 10 swallow up next?

Maradona’s life was a show, and events over the past few days in Buenos Aires have proven that

I am a half-Jewish product of artificial trees, bagels, White Hart Lane, and of two people who knew little of theology but everything of God’s love