Books
Genius at Work
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times by William E. Wallace
Mum’s the Word
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross
A Good Look at Logic
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitrou
1688 and All That
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
Bloodstained Chancer
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
Entrenched Enemies
The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
Poetic Justice
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 and The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James
Horse Power
Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven
Dazed and Confused
William Golding: The Man who wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
Irascible Iron Man
Calvin by Bruce Gordon
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts