British Library
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
Letter from Washington: Biden’s covid complacency
The president should double his vaccine target
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
Letter from Washington: How the left fell out of love with the First Amendment
The drift of the ACLU is symptomatic of a wider problem among American progressives
McCarthyism, Cancel Culture and the new woke agenda
J. C. D. Clark reveals how Alan Dershowitz’s book is a nostalgic defence of the ‘American dream’ and of American exceptionalism
How the pandemic has exacerbated our struggle for dignity
David Goodhart’s recent book is a reminder that we need to look out for those whose lives, jobs and purpose are disappearing
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
Lockdown has fostered a ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women
In the wake of Sarah Everard’s death, why has no one acknowledged that Lockdown has provided the ideal conditions for which violence against women can thrive?
Mood music from the past
A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935
A QC’s truth
Jolyon Maugham and Professor Lavery are misrepresenting the Bell v Tavistock case
Professionalism is a two-way street
The lobby’s mysterious lack of solidarity with Nadine White