EH Carr
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England