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

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

Pub quiz masters with a taste for William Shakespeare are spoiled for choice when it comes to red letter years. The ...

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’ ...

The sea, as you might expect, looms large in Benjamin Wood’s finely tuned novella Seascraper. Thomas Flett – one of the most ...

Japan will take it in its stride, even if its automakers might be hit. China will absorb the extra costs, and the UK has ...

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

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

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

Ursula von der Leyen faces the biggest test of her European Commission leadership as MEPs gather to vote on a motion of ...

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