How railways conquered the world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart explore how railways spread across the world — from India to Australia — in what was a technological achievement but also a complex political phenomenon.
Rail and the development of the USA
The birth of British railways
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
