Samuel Pepys
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
