The bully state (w/ Christopher Snowdon)
Enjoy your guilty pleasures while you can
United Statecraft
Early days of the American empire
Mysteries of history (w/ Samuel Rubinstein)
From the Anglo-Saxons to Israel and Palestine
The opposing eagles
Geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States
On a different plane
British air power in theory and practice
The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Ideas, influence and international politics
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham