Old Despots’ Home
Exiled tyrants need no longer fear: a luxurious afterlife awaits them in a club for failed dictators George Washington put his money into British
A Vanished World
Peter Paterson’s engaging memoir evokes an era of Fleet Street camaraderie which has long since disappeared Peter Paterson, the author of an engaging memoir
Transit Camp
While celebrity transvestites are much adored in Turkey, their everyday counterparts are the subject of hostile abuse on the streets of Istanbul Beneath the
Free At Last
With the State System failing our children, only free schools can provide an affordable, quality education for all
School Meal Deal
The Deprived Pupil Premium — the eligibility criterion for two years' free university tuition — favours the work-shy and discriminates against working single parents
That’s Politainment!
‘When Mr Googleberg attempts a comeback, he will come up against a German attachment to truth and decency’
The Fine Art of Living
Inventor of the fête galante, Jean-Antoine Watteau painted faux-pastoral scenes with a peerless verve
When Sammy Met Bobby
Former child prodigies Samuel Reshevsky and Bobby Fischer had one of the fiercest rivalries in chess history — and not only on the board