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Zawe Ashton, Freida Pinto and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù star in this fresh take on the Regency-era romantic comedy. The wardrobes and scenery are a treat as well.

In 1817, a working-class uprising was brutally quashed amid accusations that government spies had deliberately incited the rebels. Stephen Bates relates the tragedy of the Pentrich Rising...

Mark Tufnell says many farmers are reluctant to trust government as changes to subsidy payments loom

While reading Keen and Slemrod’s chronicle of the Hone Toia – the leader of Māori of Hokianga – you can almost hear the crowds howling in resistance to a colonial tax on dogs, as their leader, Hones Toai, presciently predicted that “[i]f dogs were to be taxed, men would be next”. But it is not only the skilful telling of this and many other tax stories by two of the most experienced public finance economists of their time that sustains the interest of this book for more than 500 pages; it takes more than the entertainment of countless historical tax tales to produce a book on tax t...

Published: January 6, 2021 at 12:39 pm Ellie Cawthorne: Your new book looks at Brexit, but from the perspective of a longer history of the relationship between Britain and Europe. What made you want to write this book? Advertisement Robert Tombs: Our ideas about Europe, our relationship with Europe and the difficulties of that relationship – the whole European project, in fact – are all essentially based on an understanding of the past (and hence of the present), and expectations about the future. You could write endless books about Brexit and the EU, analysing political structu...