The man we should all have been talking about in 2016. Continue reading
Author Archives: Lion & Unicorn
The greatest living Englishmen
From Wilkie Collins to Cecil Rhodes, the votes are in from our Victorian juries. Continue reading
Remember remember (1916)
Commemorating Guy Fawkes night in the year of the Somme. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Wrong side of history
It’s difficult to be right about history – as everyone from Sir Walter Scott to Philip Hammond has discovered. Continue reading
Post #200: The liberty of the press
A robust defence of free speech from 200 years ago. Continue reading
Aberfan: ‘It had fallen…’
Remembering the Aberfan disaster in 1966, an extract from JOHN SUMMERS’s novel The Disaster. Continue reading
The arrest of Oscar Wilde
A contemporary newspaper account of Oscar being seized in 1895. Continue reading
Hastings remembered
‘The Norman had run riot on our fair South Saxon soil’: 950 years since Hastings. Continue reading
Saving democracy: The popular front against Fascism
Stephen Spender in 1936 on the political responsibilities of intellectuals. Continue reading
80 years ago: The future of Labour
From the News Chronicle in October 1936: Will there ever be a Labour government again? Continue reading
The quiet revolutionary Mark I
Theresa May isn’t the first Tory prime minister to promise a quiet revolution. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Naming and shaming
Amber Rudd is the latest home secretary to pledge to name and shame. But who was the first? Continue reading
