Book Review

Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin

How absolute power lurks within liberalism

There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard

Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit

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

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

How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle

We are all historians of our own here and now