Although Gordon M. Williams died as recently as 2017, his heyday was the Wilson/Heath era of the late 1960s and 1970s. During ...

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Readers of progressive newspapers have occasionally been invited to admire a man called Miqdaad Versi. He was the subject of ...

Sometime after the Long Parliament met in November 1640, a seamstress living in London called Katherine Chidley decided that ...

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The last time I talked with The Spectator columnist Jonathan Miller was perhaps ten days ago, just before his unexpected ...

In the Fifth Circle of Dante’s Inferno, the damned are cursed to bob on the surface of the Styx, scrapping and fighting with ...

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Soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, Charlotte Beradt, who as a Jewish journalist and a communist had been barred from ...

The Möbius Book has been variously described as ‘a hybrid work that is both fiction and non-fiction’ and a ‘memoir-cum-novel’ ...

Gregg Wallace’s 20-year career with the BBC is finished – and so is any admiration he had for the broadcaster, apparently.