The other one
How Edward VIII threatened the royal family
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
Ukraine: one year on
We must be as resolute as the Ukrainians
The salvation of crime fiction
In praise of delectably dark escapism
Return of the mercenaries
Putin’s hired killers have money on their minds
Seldon’s way
Pioneering a path to redemption
Many tanks
Ukraine needs the arms required to win
A Christmas plea for pen and ink
In praise of the small features of civilisation
Surprise in war
Ukraine shows that speed can be everything — but swiftness is born of careful planning
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
