History
A one-sided view of history that neuters parliament
Brexiteers are right: parliamentary sovereignty is inextricably linked with national sovereignty
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
We didn’t want to be poor no more
Growing up in the Eighties was a story of aspiration — and anxiety
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
I think therefore I speak very carefully
The law, philosophy and words for male and female
Judging the judges
The way forward is clear: we need another Constitutional Reform Act, writes Joshua Rozenberg
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
Darren against Remain’s Goliath
Abused as a criminal and fined £20,000 by the regulator, a hero of Brexit has been vindicated
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe