Mystery
Murders for the end of the month
From laugh-out-louds to gripping plots, Jeremy Black recommends murder mysteries for the end of the month
Hat trick ball
Help me trace Gunner Costello, the fast bowler who may have survived a Court-Martial
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government