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‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.’ @bricksilk on the Spycatcher affair. David Anderson - ...

Academic critics of Dryden or Pope were not in the habit, the last time I checked, of interspersing their monographs with reminiscences of sex clubs in Manhattan. An affectionate excursus on that ...

I yield to none in my admiration for Professor Roger Scruton. What Brains! And, as the Pimpernel of Prague, what courage! And I quite understand why he has written this fictionalised version of ...

Do you know what happened in Lyon in AD 177? Or in Milan in 1300? Or in Baroda in 1825? You probably don’t, but you shouldn’t worry: few do. Whatever happened, it was, by ordinary standards, something ...

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‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.’ @bricksilk on the Spycatcher affair. David Anderson - ...

‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.’ @bricksilk on the Spycatcher affair. David Anderson - ...

Ancestors do turn quear, as Daisy Ashford says, and when you begin the third novel of a trilogy without knowledge of its forerunners, your fear is not so much that you won’t know who the characters ...

There is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of the competition between the ...

‘The whole point of this book’, the award-winning epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector informs readers of Spoon-Fed, ‘is not to tell you how or what to eat’ – a refreshing change for those who have to ...