Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?
Murders for the end of the month
From laugh-out-louds to gripping plots, Jeremy Black recommends murder mysteries for the end of the month
‘Anti-racism’ claims another scalp at University of Oxford’s Medical School
In adopting “social justice” ideology, Oxford’s Medical School risks taking a dangerous turn away from science and reason
Producer, Genius, Madman, Murderer – what will Phil Spector’s true legacy be?
For all his apparently endless faults, we have just witnessed the passing of one of music’s true geniuses
You talkin’ to me? Fuhgeddaboudit!
E. J. White’s book on the history of New York English is not the first on the subject, but it goes a long way in explaining the evolution of the city’s unique linguistics
Could Tice scupper the Tories in Hartlepool?
The Hartlepool by-election will require a careful candidate selection for the Conservatives
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Steven Spurrier: A class act of the wine world
Steven Spurrier, a British wine expert and a fixture at all London tastings, died this week at the age of 79
Crying Wolffe
The Alex Salmond inquiry has been hobbled by legal intervention – so why can the media publish what politicians cannot discuss?