Angelica Goodden
Napoleon’s Bête Noire
Mme de Staël’s works are once again being read, but she deserves to be remembered as a realist as well as a fabulist
Sketches By Bozzy
The youthful indiscretions of Johnson’s biographer
Revolutionary Roundabout
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it