The rise and rise of military history
A fine new landmark in the welcome renaissance of a timeless genre
National dis-service
Patriotism can’t, and shouldn’t be, compelled
History is a battleground
How the world struggles to protect its heritage
The great grain war
Russian aggression is endangering global food supplies
The rise and fall of Prigozhin
How Wagner came down to earth
Bookshop serendipity
A bibliophile carries books like memories
Schrödinger’s summer offensive
The Ukrainian offensive is not what it appears
Going to war
Iraq, Eric Ambler and me
The other one
How Edward VIII threatened the royal family
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
