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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

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

Banking and the First World War

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

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

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

Roy Jenkins, an only child from the valleys, was born into the socialist purple. That is, his father Arthur, a miners’ agent, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment during the General Strike,

"I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my

What is called “modern” philosophy is dated as beginning with Descartes in the 17th century. Space, time, God, the world, my body, everything I seem to remember about the life I have

The Lasker-Capablanca showdown of 1914

The Reckoning tells of how Avraham Stern’s death changed the fate of Israel…

Vladimir Putin is often described as being like a grandmaster in his moves on the diplomatic board. This is based on the clichéd view that Russian skill at…