The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.

John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.

Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.

Lord Salisbury seeks to calm the Viceroy of India’s nerves in the face of anti-Russian hysteria.

Lord Salisbury tells his fellow statesmen that no country should have its laws dictated from abroad.