My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was “the Catholic Eton”. I am oddly disappointed to learn from Mark Cleary’s new book that four other ...

It was four years after the storming of the Bastille that the new revolutionary government really established the framework ...

A Libyan rebel in the town of Sirt demonstrates how they found Gaddafi hiding out in this tunnel. Credit: Alamy How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive (John Murray) by Marcel Dirsus As late as ...