Master of the Glories of the English Country Garden
The work of Eric Ravilious
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Hitler Humour
Can Adolf Hitler ever really be a figure of fun?
Beginners’ Bingo
My sister and I decided to go to Gala Bingo in Tooting on a recent Saturday night to celebrate the tax on bingo being cut to 10 per cent, thanks to Robert
Bach from the Brink
It isn't every day that one attends the UK première of a Bach Passion, least of all one thought to have been lost forever. Admittedly, this work is not by Johann Sebastian
Insider War Trading
Banking and the First World War
Message in a Bottle
Roger Scruton’s Notes from Underground is a loving portrait of the beauty and desolation of Communist-era Prague Having known Roger Scruton for quite some time, I knew I was in for something
Beards Need Not Apply
The overlooked female contemporaries of Aristotle and Cicero
Funding Extremism
The government is directing millions of taxpayers money to rogue NGOs dedicated to damaging Israel Addressing Israel’s parliament in March, David Cameron assured his audience that he would be working with the
Treating Composers as Researchers is Bonkers
Music's artistic merit does not depend on academic criteria-as I know from experience
Cruising Around the Ancient Med
There is a fresh wind blowing among historians. In the universities, the writing of increasingly recondite monographs, suitably stuffed with the jargon of the trade, has for too long been seen as
Sound Money, Unsound Men
Peace and sound money are the two necessary and sufficient requisites for prosperity. This makes Sir Robert Peel a great hero of Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng's book. Sir Robert, who was instrumental
Revolutionary Guard
Few events have so fascinated historians as the French Revolution. How could such a momentous and frightening experience, leading to the public execution of Louis XVI and the Reign of Terror, be