Hobbes the optimist

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

Goethe: A Life in Ideas Matthew Bell (Princeton ...

A new think tank aims to help a future Reform government be like Gulliver and escape the ties that paralyse the British state

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early