Kray Twins
Unmasking of a libertine lord
With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country