Jean Monnet
The EU Godfather’s Wall Street roots
Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
No party for female voters
Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution