Local History
Rambling through Chesham and Amersham
Each constituency has a unique and fascinating history
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Did prayer decide the Battle of Goose Green?
The expedition to take back the Falkland Islands was riskier than we might think
Zut alors! Ten Per Cent is no Call My Agent
The remake of the French original is rather merde
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Weeds in the garden
A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
Manager or meme?
Is Musk’s takeover of Twitter a good thing, a disaster, or just very funny?
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
Britain has been betrayed
Our country’s fortunes aren’t falling — they were pushed
Putin and the Pope
Can the Argentinian pontiff make a difference in Ukraine?
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong