Napoleon
The artistic case for historical accuracy
There is no conflict between being truthful and being compelling
Return of the biopic
History is fashionable again at the cinema
The Revolution’s shadow
How did conflict affect British politics?
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven