Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the sixty year reign of a man brought up to be the embodiment of a patriot king

Have mere words finally lost their power to move us?

The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas

Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham

Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received

Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history

Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?

Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings

Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”