Britain has a fine tradition of autodidacticism, so why not forget university and pick up a book?
16 months ago

You're a middle-aged man who sports an embarrassing attempt at “designer stubble”. You enjoy telling everyone how much you enjoy the music...
9 months ago

Why do publishers publish the books they do? The answer seems obvious: they publish what they think will sell because they have to make...
30 months ago

During her coronation in 1953, the Queen made solemn oaths to maintain the “true profession of the Gospel”, “the Protestant Reformed Religion established by...
27 months ago

There's a new bogeyman in town. Criticised simultaneously as a reheated version of American pro-free market Tea Party style populism,...
19 months ago

The accession of Charles to the throne is highly unusual in a number of respects, of which two stand out. Firstly, no heir has waited longer...
26 months ago

The rise of anti-puritan disorder in 1660 reflected a growing sense that the superstructure of petty republican despotism was tottering.
30 months ago

No one enjoys nostalgia for 70s politics more than me. Who can fail to love an era when brutal ex-miners-turned-Labour whips called Walter...
29 months ago

The Royal Commission on the Operation of the Poor Laws, set up in 1832, was chaired by Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London.
29 months ago

Humanists UK vice-president Alice Roberts is conducting a brave campaign against the Church of England's dystopian programme of religious indoctrination.
12 months ago