Martin In The Margins

Last week I wrote about the way that one’s historical sympathies can be swayed by one’s ancestors’ political affiliations, and I mentione...

Just heard this online at KCSM , the Bay Area Jazz Station. It's 2.30 a.m. over there, but I often find their lazy late-night moods matc...

I imagine serious historians must tear their hair out at programmes like Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?  which was on BBC 4 la...

So farewell then, Homeland : or rather, farewell Season 1, since we’re told that a second series is currently being filmed . We’ll have to...

What’s a decent secular liberal supposed to do for a daily newspaper these days? A refugee from the indiscriminately pro-faithist and worr...

So farewell then, Cesaria Evora . That's two people dying in two days who've meant a lot to me. Everyone's linking to the class...

One of my heroes dies , and I'm lost for words. But you could do worse than read the wonderful tributes by Terry Glavin , Nick Cohen , ...