Issue: February 2023

And bolder than Gandhi

We need to be honest about the reality of the kill

Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”

We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly

How he at last lived up to his promise

Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise

Stephen Pollard: he’s not the man the bookies fear

Claudia Savage-Gore angsts about being interviewed on a chi-chi website

Keir Davidson draws on abundant family archives to paint extensive biographies of artistic and scientific patronage

For all Cimino’s flaws, there was still “the vision thing”