Riffing on the lessons we might learn from history, but probably won't.
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A Life Told Through Bits of Paper
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Last weekend was perfect. It was a big basketful of emotions, most of them deliriously happy, a few very sad, all of them poignant.
On Friday, Sharon and I travelled through Perthshire in central...
The Toxic Charm of a Malignant Narcissist
Carlos the Jackal: desperately trying to look cool
On 21 December 1975, Carlos the Jackal, accompanied by five heavily armed terrorist colleagues, invaded the head office of OPEC in Vienna. ‘I am the famous Carlos!’, he shouted on entering...
This is Who We Can Be
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
Back in 2008, during building works at St Johns College Oxford, construction workers found a mass grave. That’s a common occurrence in ancient England; stick a spade into the earth and you’re quite likely to fin...
A Message in a Betrothal
Today starts a three-part series on how the Sixties became the Seventies. I’m going to examine three events which, for me, embody the cultural shift from one ethos to another. The first little piece — on Mick Jagger’s wedding to Bianca Pere...
The End
Back in the 1990s, while working at the University of St Andrews, I caught a student committing plagiarism. It was actually pretty easy; he wrote his senior thesis about General Douglas Haig, about whom I’d written my first book. Huge secti...
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Historian, journalist, and crazy dog lover living in St Andrews, Scotland. Once wrote a lot of books, now a book critic for The Times and others. In my other life I make and fix things. People tell me that I'm a great cook. Friends call me Jerry.
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