Tessa Dunlop
Dr Tessa Dunlop is a historian and the author of Elizabeth and Philip: the story of young love, marriage and monarchy. She tweets at @tessadunlop
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline