Bruce Coleman
Bruce Coleman is a former head of the Department of History, University of Exeter
An exercise in self-flagellation
Bruce Coleman finds that this book on the West India Interest is more polemical than historical
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
