From Jargon To Incantation
An update of Roger Scruton's takedown of Leftist intellectuals is even sharper than its predecessor
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The First City To Be Coventried
The Coventry raid has stuck in the collective memory for a variety of reasons
Magdalen’s Bad Old Days
RW "Bill" Johnson's memoir of the college is a rattling good read
Where The White Stuff Came From
Edmund De Waal's personal history of porcelain
Not Short, Not Sweet
When it comes the the novel, big isn't always beautiful
Comeback For Political Novels?
The Daily Mail's Stakhanovite sketchwriter has finally written his debut novel
Hume’s ‘Treatise’ And The Problem Of Early Success
A new biography sheds light on the afterlife of Hume's writings
When Francis Was Still Jorge
Cardinal Bergoglio's road to the Vatican
Stalin’s Man In London
The newly-published diaries of Ivan Maisky are an extraordinarily important 21st-century contribution to our understanding of the Second World War
Our Island’s Storytelling
How Britain discovered a lucrative new role as a global cultural powerhouse
Chelsea Or Montmartre?
The artists and writers who pursued the muse in fin-de-siècle London and Paris
The Sons Also Rise
What is it like to grow up as the child of a dictator?