Tristram Shandy
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
