Dafydd Elis-Thomas The constitution of the United Kingdom holds no mysteries as far as I am concerned, though most of its commentators indulge in mystificati...

Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie Magazine Thomas More invented the word ‘utopia’ from the Greek ‘ou’—‘not’—and ‘topos’—‘place’; i.e. Utopia was by its nature...

Benedikt Koehler Anyone who sells a house and makes a profit wants to know what to do with the money they make. If they live in a city with a bull market in ...

Stephen Clark For many, Britain in the 1930s is the age of the Jarrow Marchers, Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and the darkening clouds of fascism. ...

Sholto Byrnes The idea that liberal democracy is under siege around the globe has been gaining force over the last year or so. A number of books have warned ...

Mark Ronan The following is an excerpt from a talk given by Professor Mark Ronan, University College,London at a research seminar. An historian of mathematic...