'"The Last Colony" is, among other things, part of the campaign to shift the British position through political pressure. As with all good propaganda, Sands’s case is based in truth, if not the whole of it.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/empire-strikes-back

'To her enemies she was the alien temptress who led Charles I away from the "true religion" of Protestantism and towards royal absolutism.'

Lucy Hughes-Hallett reviews @LeandadeLisle's 'colourful', 'persuasive' new biography of Henrietta Maria.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/royalist-generalissima

'Empathy is our moral portal gun, and it jams from underuse.'

Don Paterson on Portal 2, catching Covid on the Eurostar, and rereading Ian Hamilton’s 'Against Oblivion'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/portal-agony