Reading Recovery
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform