Jonathan Boff
Jonathan Boff is Reader in Modern History at the University of Birmingham.
Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?