Minoo Dinshaw
Minoo Dinshaw is working on a book about political moderates during the run-up to the civil wars in seventeenth-century Britain. He is both maternally and maritally Scottish @MinooFramroze
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work