22 APRIL 2006, page 19

A Century And A Half Of Conspicuous Bravery

Michael Ashcroft , a devoted collector of the Victoria Cross, marks the 150th anniversary of the medal’s creation and salutes its simple beauty T he concept of bravery intrigues......

Theodore Dalrymple

I was about to write ‘Everyone knows the story of James Lind, the Scottish naval surgeon, who conducted the first controlled trial in the history of medicine to prove the......