Kevin Lygo
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
