Issue: June 2024

Claims that the Bank of England’s programme cost billions are a red herring

Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year

Our main heritage conservation charity wants to be down with the kids

The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration

There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take

The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument

Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England

The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot

There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment