Ancestry
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
The Scullabogue martyrs
A S H Smyth remembers his Quaker ancestors killed June 5, during the Irish rebellion of 1798
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders
The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering
Clash of empires
Was Yorktown really a triumph more significant than Nelson’s at Trafalgar?
Badges of obedience
Behind the NHS Rainbow is compulsory training and enforced ideology
Lovely jubbly
Celebrating the genius of Only Fools and Horses on its 40th anniversary
It’s a sad, sad situation
The bold standard
Cardinal Newman
The apostate saint
Broken news
Binding stations to strict impartiality regulations deprives people of watching partisan news programmes even if they want to
Criminal stupidity
Sorting your “he” from your “ze” won’t improve places where one would hesitate to keep farm animals
John Saumarez Smith: a bibliophile and a gentleman
The Heywood Hill bookseller has died
Citizens of somewhere
Michael Henderson delves into two different radio programmes with identity at the centre