In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth
A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
