ruthlessness

The horror that emerges from the columns of Domesday Book

5 September 2026 9:00 am

William the Conqueror’s Great Inquest codified one of the most ruthless land grabs in history, with the obliteration of 5,000 Saxon noblemen and the collective punishment of England’s native peoples

Lucian Freud in his bedroom in Notting Hill, May 2011

Breaking omertà

12 October 2013 9:00 am

According to the medical historian Professor Sonu Shamdasani, Sigmund Freud was not the best, nor actually the most interesting, psychoanalyst…