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
The slippery slope to death by doctor’s order
The Royal College of Physicians’ decision to end its opposition to assisted dying is morally indefensible and gives a green light to activists
The road to hell for the mentally incapacitated
The weasel words of disability rights may be well-intentioned, but they mask institutional cruelty and deprive caring parents of their say