In his biography of the statesman, Jesse Norman presents Burke as of seminal importance to today’s conservatism, and to Cameron’s government. He isn’t.

The august institution was formed in the space of just ten days in late 1768 — and was born of a fierce professional rivalry

Britain’s seats of learning are coping with the new funding regime but are threatened by philistine regulators

History may remember the Arab Spring's "noble revolutionaries" in the same terms as those of the French Revolution — utopian and doomed to failure