Dmitri Levitin
Dmitri Levitin teaches history at the University of Utrecht, and is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions