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
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?