History
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
How to get history wrong: a case study
Jeremy Black explains the strange case of Edward Lucas
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
History man
Reflecting on a life in a British university
Eternal resurrection
James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Winners of the Wall Game
A confident new Germany has consigned division to history
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
