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Should princes be seen and not heard?

Lord Rogers of Riverside ought to accept that the past produces precedents in any debate about what royalty can and cannot do

Kicking the issue into the long grass?

The PM's interest in electoral reform may be a sign he thinks its Labour's only chance of staying in office after the election

Gordon Brown is in need of good news

The Prime Minister might recall how Clement Attlee escaped a political putsch

Peter the Wild Man from Hanover

Feral children have long been a source of pity, fear and curiosity to the rest of society, including King George I

Public outrage over MPs’ expenses

Some Labour MPs were reduced to eating tea and toast in cheap cafés

Berlusconi’s admiration for the bella figura

When in the company of showgirls, politicians, like vicars, need to take care. A helping hand is easily misconstrued

The Tories will jilt Emin and go back toThatcher

The Conservative party's political wooing of Tracey Emin is bound to end in tears

Our response to pandemic threats

Bubonic plague was able to decimate the population of medieval Europe without the assistance of airlines

The end of the new Labour project?

Fiscal conservatives ought, perhaps, to lament that Chancellor Alistair Darling is not more of an old Labour man

Historical irony of the Vatican's stance

Even the most devout ultramontanist might wonder if the papacy has the right to veto the US’s choice of ambassador to the Holy See

Lord Hoffman's star historical witness

The liberal Law Lord feels British judges can best interpret how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied in UK courts

Disagreements may have helped the economy

It is surprising many modern-day reflationists bemoan the failed conference of 1933 when arguing for a G20 agreement in 2009

Welsh Druid won a crucial legal victory

Nothing in the open-air funeral pyres debate is half as odd as the court case that permitted cremation in the UK in the first place

The redbrick financial revolution

Oxbridge college chiefs once lived like rulers of minor German principalities while academics earned a pittance at the redbricks

What the hungry decade can teach us

In this springtime for economic historians, no argument is too dead to be buried. But what are the lessons of the 1930s?

Terrorists had cricketers in their sights before

Back in the 1920s the Irish Republican Army well understood the symbolic power of leather on willow

Politicians mourning for their children

Only once in the past hundred years has a Prime Minister and Opposition Leader grieved for the loss of children in quick succession