Author: Robert Winder

The Open Championship has been a high point of the British sporting calendar for 150 years, but few have been so memorable as in 2009. After four h...

In recent years the modern world has developed a brave new concept: 'soft power'. It is the power of friendly persuasion rather than command, and i...

It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a lan...

The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important ...