Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today

Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women

Universal Basic Income has been around for a while

Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell

Potatoes were hyped as the key to a well-nourished populace by the European intelligentsia in the 1700s

Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield

Patrick Hamilton, the writer who inadvertently coined the term, had his own victims

Or does ‘direct action’ undermine democratic institutions? Graham Stewart debates with Jeremy Black

French Royalist groups wait for a king, but is their cause surely lost?

Professor Jeremy Black picks-over the evidence with Graham Stewart