From the golden age of crime fiction to the modern day, Jeremy Black recommends seven books to see you through April

Where were all the free-speech warriors when a Labour candidate sent an antisemitic tweet?

An apparent uptick in public interest about the British Army in Iraq includes a dramatic rendition of the Battle of Danny Boy and its aftermath

Steve Morris celebrates the great British institution of the greasy spoon ‘caff’ and predicts that it will thrive again in a post-Covid world

Will Salmond’s Alba Party split or maximise the pro-independence vote in May?

Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?

David Smith recalls time spent with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: the most murderous army of insurrection in Latin America’s modern history

Commentators who have spent the last 20 years undermining key principles of democracy are crawling out from the woodwork to protect the right to protest

There is nothing semi-skimmed about Sir Charles Walker

Jeremy Black recommends three history books that have been neglected by literary reviewers