History
Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?
How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
Back to school…or is remote learning enough for now?
And is there a point to counter-factual history?
Part Six: Home Education? Help!
Looking to the past – and the future
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
Clementi House
From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Another Country
Fiona Duncan loves hotels that do things differently
The many women of George Orwell
Orwell’s biographer reveals all in this week’s Podcast
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
Identity politics in these islands
A new forum sets out to save the UK – but time is ticking
Woke eugenics
When eco-warriors talk of population control, they mean the world would be better off with fewer poor black people