John Saumarez Smith
John Saumarez Smith: a bibliophile and a gentleman
The Heywood Hill bookseller has died
Bring back Victorian YIMBY-ism
We cling to the buildings our 19th century forebears left behind, but they would decry our squeamishness
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
Is the Union breaking up?
Nationalist parties have a vested interest in falling short of independence
Tory Story
Playtime is never over in Westminster
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death