Tim Bouverie

Jan 17, 2025 | airmail.news | Tim Bouverie

History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft by Richard Davenport-Hines Christ Church, noted the artist and architect Hugh Casson, “has had all the advantages plus the adjectives to go with them.”The largest and grandest of Oxford’s colleges, it was founded first by Cardinal Wolsey, then, following the prelate’s fall, refounded by Henry VIII.

Dec 13, 2024 | airmail.news | Tim Bouverie

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa The problem with dynasties is their propensity to produce duds. For every Louis XIV, there is a Louis XVI. For every George H. W. Bush, a George W. Bush. And for every Peter the Great or Catherine the Great, a Peter III or Nicholas II. To be sure, Nicholas’s inheritance was an unenviable one.

Nov 15, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Tim Bouverie |Simon Wilgress-pipe |Antonie Robertson

The UAE is home to many a motoring event, but few come as dusty, wet or technically challenging as the annual Emirates Adventure Rally Raid. This year’s competition, which is made up of three separate rounds, sees bikers take on a series of epic routes through some of the country’s remotest and, if you’re tackling them on two wheels, physically demanding regions. Those taking part use their own road-registered machines to tackle the terrain, tearing across sand, over rocks and through water.

Sep 6, 2024 | airmail.news | Tim Bouverie

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner In the late 18th century, Weimar was the center of the German Enlightenment. Home to Goethe, Schiller, and the philosopher-poet Johann Gottfried Herder, this small Thuringian town became “Athens on the Ilm.” A little more than a century later, Weimar witnessed a new cultural flowering as the headquarters of the Bauhaus school. The aesthetics could not have been more different.

Aug 27, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Tim Bouverie

Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a new indictment against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election. The indictment keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him after a Supreme Court opinion gave broad immunity to former presidents.