Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
