Alexander Morrison
Alexander Morrison is a historian of empire and of colonial warfare, currently Fellow and Tutor in History at New College, Oxford. His most recent book is The Russian Conquest of Central Asia.
Stop insisting the West is as bad as Russia
Critics of the democratic world are unwittingly spouting Kremlin propaganda
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic