Spinoza, according to Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, is ‘the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers’. As a natural consequence of his ethical supremacy, Russell adds, ...
Western Europe is in the grip of a cultural illness that is sapping its will to live, claims Douglas Murray in this hard-hitting polemic. Unprecedented levels of immigration, especially from the ...
Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. The production and export of cars, machinery and chemicals lay behind the German ‘economic miracle’ of the ...
The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...
Mohamed bin Laden was born in 1908 (or thereabouts) in the town of Doan in what is now Yemen. His father died when he was still a young boy and, as a teenager, he left home to find work, first in ...
If I want to walk along the river near where I live, I have to cross one of the busiest roads in west London. The only access is via an underpass, an enclosed tunnel where a female friend of mine was ...
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. ‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’ @RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas ...
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...
With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...