History
The pardoner’s tale
Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring
George III – a much misunderstood monarch?
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
Where have all the Orators gone?
Have mere words finally lost their power to move us?
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
The historical role of the maîtresse-en-titre
Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history
Bursting the bubbles
Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
“A metal barbie on the crest of an £143,000 turd”
Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
