Robert Fox
Magdalen’s Bad Old Days
RW “Bill” Johnson’s memoir of the college is a rattling good read
Not All Roads Lead to Rome
Book review of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
General David Petraeus
The teachings of the man who gave us the surge in Iraq will be taught for many years to come. Don’t rule out a run for the White House in 2016
Divo Giulio
Giulio Andreotti is the subject of a new film exploring the labyrinthine nature of political power in Italy
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?