History

England’s soft underbelly

Patrick West reviews The Channel, by Charlie Connelly

Books
A fistful of Gandhis

The condescending contrivances of diversified dosh

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The fear of the fever: how we are now living the authentic Victorian experience

Covid-19 is bringing us closer to the Victorians more than any recreation of an 1830s London townhouse ever could

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Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On

Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort

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Does the Mediterranean have a common culture?

And did its modern tourist industry develop naturally? Graham Stewart discusses with Professor Jeremy Black

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Take Your Picton

Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue

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Nobel Noblemen

Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice

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Still fit to print?

The rise and fall of the British newspaper

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Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.

How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled

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Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…

Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration

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