Sacred Cows
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
The prophet who didn’t do people
Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.
Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Sturgeon’s options
Should the SNP be patient, or trigger a crisis?
Few heirs to spare
Is philosophy even within reach of conservatives?
Why is Ken Loach judging an anti-racism competition?
His dismissal of anti-Semitism within Labour is hardly a role model for children
Clive James, the Kid from Kogarah
A tribute to the late Clive James, by David Herman
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating