David Engels
David Engels is chair of Roman History at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and senior analyst at the Instytut Zachodni in Poznań. He is the author of Le Déclin: La crise de l'Union européenne et la chute de la république romaine, analogies historiques.
What the Polish election means
It has major implications for conservatism and left-liberalism in Europe
Between Middle Earth and the West
130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien?
Tomorrow in Poland
“Konfederacja” and PiS are predestined partners in the attempt to protect Poland’s identity and learn from the West’s mistakes
Ongoing lessons from the Battle of Warsaw
After the Miracle at the Vistula, a Miracle at the Oder?
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city