Wolfson Prize for History
Black Spartacus
The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
