Hygiene
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Far from easy reading
The heart of his argument is solid and his insight is inspired
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
