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?
Turning the tables on coercion?
Lord Walney’s report on political extremism is valuable if flawed
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Medical science is oppressive
Illness and wellness are mere taxonomies of power
Sorry is the hardest word
In the wake of the Cass Report, the hordes are now looking for a face-saving way to recant
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU