Cartography
Studio: The history of Britain in maps
Maps are aids and images, means and messages
Three first-rate books on maps
What about the past should and could be mapped, and how to do so, are vexed issues in cartographic studies
Atlases aren’t dead yet
Jeremy Black pores over the latest offerings from the scholarly literature on cartography
Mapping the past
The new edition of Tom Harper’s ‘Atlas: A World of Maps’ is an instructive as well as attractive volume
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
