History

Controlling crises

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

Artillery Row
Are we an oppressor nation?

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

Sounding Board
A puritan but not a fanatic

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

Books
The poet and the patrician

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

Books
War-war not jaw-jaw

Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming

Books
Clementi House

From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home

Artillery Row
David Starkey on the role of Parliament

Is Parliament a check on the executive or its enabler?

Artillery Row
Why they rebel…

J. C. D. Clark delves into Extinction Rebellion’s new pamphlet in search of something more

Artillery Row
A one-sided view of history that neuters parliament

Brexiteers are right: parliamentary sovereignty is inextricably linked with national sovereignty

Columns
American psychos

Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson

Books