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
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town