Artillery Row

Is Boris Johnson the wrong man?

And do we still have a national story? With Simon Heffer and Jeremy Black

Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?

How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today

Linguistic confusion

Dominic Hilton has more trouble with English than Spanish in Argentina

The dangerous lessons from Spain

Leading historian Nigel Jones argues the UK is now dangerously fractured along political lines

Emerging from Sri Lanka’s lockdown: a morning at Colombo’s booksheds

A S H Smyth pays a visit to one of his favourite places in Colombo

Why MPs can no longer vote by click

Voting through the lobbies is an inconvenience worth preserving

Great minds think alike

Is there a reason why MPs’ Cummings statements all sounded the same?

Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker

Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker

Is Boris Johnson the John Major of our day?

Anthony Broxton investigates the similarities between two political scandals

The time is right for fightin’ in the tweets

Trump’s response to Twitter – as to the riots – tells floating voters he is on their side