Dutch Golden Age
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (and old) Man
The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
