Elizabeth I
My Italian Stallion
The winning jockey receives a splendid silver cup and a very Sud-Tirol basket of apples
Mapping a nation
The popularity of Saxton’s maps reflected the desire for consistency and precision
Courtly love
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell
A time for Anglican Royalism
The renewal of British tradition
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game