Harry Mount
Class Clown
How Boris Johnson uses education and privilege to taunt the toffs and play to the yobs
Cotswolds Confidential
Billionaires vs. millionaires in the Hamptons of England
Rootless Metropolitan
A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York
Arche-Nemesis
If only Prince Harry had done his ancient-Greek homework …
Sic Trans Gloria
Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders
Fraudenfreude
While the businessman–social animal David Tang gave the impression of living the high life, in fact he was plundering his companies and gambling away his fortune
Out of the Blue
A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?
Callil Confidential
For many years, Carmen Callil dominated London’s literary and feminist scenes. In a memoir, the outspoken Melbourne native travels back in time
Dame Frances Campbell-Preston
Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting
Dirty Latin
If you want to know how Romans actually talked, then look at their obscene graffiti
The Making of a Marchioness
The late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava rejected her glamorous youth for a colorful life spent helping others
Maeve Brennan’s New York
The collected stories of a mid-20th-century Irish writer in Manhattan recall a bygone era of Truman Capote and 50-cent martinis
