ONLINE ONLY: Ferguson’s Fact of Nature
There is a truth at the heart of his controversial comments about my antecedent which Niall Ferguson does not need to apologise for…
The Roy Davids Collection
Roy Davids, head of the Manuscripts and Books department at Sotheby's for many years, built up what must be the most significant privately-owned collection
From Hegel to Hagel
The US's new Secretary of Defence should behave a little less like his Prussian near namesake and avoid hero-worshipping foreign military prowess
First in Line
If the Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a daughter, she will be first in line to the throne. But why no further changes
If Only
The Bank of England has for a long time been hanging policy on one economic indicator and hoping for the best
Poetry in Motion
Judi Dench's embattled M in Skyfall at one point reaches not for a Beretta or one of Q's exploding pens but a few lines
Heavenly Bodies
Murrillo's reputation has fallen in the face of modernist trends. Two new shows have reestablished his genius as a master of the numinous
Wotan’s Trolley
After a request to exchange a shopping trolley in Germany was lost in translation, I now know the eurozone must fail