Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker

And is there a point to counter-factual history?

Looking to the past – and the future

How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?

Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history

Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay

Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola

Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming

From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home

Is Parliament a check on the executive or its enabler?