It's a question of interpretation
Accurate science reporting is to be encouraged, but Jon Turney is sceptical about a code of practice Ah, if only journalists would get their facts straight. Then we would all know what we were...
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How pensions came of age
The Politics of retirement in Britain 1878-1948
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Muffling the voice of the Other
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
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A salesman and a revolutionary
Sun Yat-sen
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Caution, not conviction
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
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Cracks in the foundations of an historical enigma
Imperial Power and Popular Politics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist whose maxim was "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.": " This is the story of...
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Great minds that thought differently
From Poliziano to Machiavelli
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No need for a depression
The Return of Depression Economics
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Sowers of the seeds of doubt
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volumes One and Two
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Story teller versus history man
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
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The secret republic
Writing the English Republic
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A day of total luna-see
The two minutes next Wednesday when the sun istotally obscured by the moon will be watched by scientists worldwide. But this could be the first eclipse that teaches us nothing new about the sun. John...
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Shadows of days gone by
A day of total luna-see: Of all the thousands of eclipses studied by scientists, the most important was the eclipse of 1919, writes Simon Singh. It provided clinching evidence in favour of one of the...
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What are the facts behind the super fictions?
Are superfictions art or are their creators just fooling themselves? Peter Hill speaks for the defence. The storm that has been raging in the teacups of British newspapers about the self-proclaimed "...