Spartans
Spartans who remade Britain
If the Spartans had voted for May’s deal, Brussels and Corbyn would have been in control
Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
Painting by numbers
Alexander Adams counts the cost of female artistic success
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll