This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle

The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth

The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture

Dominic Hilton spots a sniper on a balcony, has embarrassing encounters in lifts and thinks gender-neutral language would make learning Spanish a lot easier

Michael Collins on the issue-led rehabilitation of a fast food giant

Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed

This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir

The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland

Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees