04/08/2021 - 1:00am

Charlie Chaplin would’ve beaten Hitler He was so serious about politics that Einstein and Churchill told him to give up comedy

Matthew Sweet

07.04

The Tory playboy who toppled the toffs Iain Macleod was destined to be PM — and then fate caught up with him

Gavin Haynes

06.04

Where is Boris Johnson? Cometh the hour, cometh the leader — or not

Howard Jacobson

05.04

Prime Ministers don’t need to be virtuous The office's 300-year history proves that the best leaders are often lazy charlatans

Dominic Sandbrook

05.04

The Brexiteer who could have saved Labour With Peter Shore as leader, the party would never have lost touch with its roots

Paul Embery

05.04

When Westminster needed a novelist Unlike many successful politicians, Anthony Trollope understood hard work

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

18.03

Theatre can thrive after lockdown Thanks to the plague, flexibility is baked into the industry's business model

Andy Kesson

15.03

How to survive a Little Ice Age Natural crises have always left us divided and distrustful

Suzannah Lipscomb

12.03

The lockdown that created Frankenstein One woman took advantage of a cancelled summer to invent science fiction

Ed West

11.03

There’s a youthquake coming The icy lockdown of 1963 caused a cultural revolution

Juliet Nicolson

10.03

How modernity erupted from a volcano Natural disasters have affected our history far more than politics

Paul Lay

09.03

When Egypt cancelled Tutankhamun Thanks to his unruly predecessor, the pharaoh's reign was erased from history

Tom Holland