History
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
The fall of Port Stanley
Letters from the Falklands front: no April fool
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
