Freemasonry

In defence of the Freemasons

10 January 2026 9:00 am

It’s a personal delight that on 29 September 1829, the first day of Robert Peel’s new force, the first warrant…

The diminutive dictator who ruled Spain with an iron fist

3 January 2026 9:00 am

Fifty years after Franco’s death, Giles Tremlett assesses the generalisimo’s bloodstained legacy

Ivor Novello as a ‘sympathetic Ripper’ in Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Jack the Ripper unmasked again

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The Whitechapel Fiend is a psychic conduit for the vilest aspects of Victorian sex and class, and a creature mainly…