Alan Sked
Alan Sked is professor emeritus of international history at LSE
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys