Gaming Holyrood
Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
Cancelling Kevin Myers
Graham Stewart speaks to one of the most fearless and outspoken journalists in Ireland
Joined-up strategy?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how US and British defence and security reviews depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview
The cancelled charity boss who wants to be mayor
David Scullion speaks to Nick Buckley about his ambitions for Manchester
Conspiracies: theory and practice
Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events
Born digital
Graham Stewart talks to Alex Story and Robert Wigley about the dangers of our addiction to digital information
Which political diaries are worth taking seriously?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart the craft and value of the political diarist
Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War
How the government has exploited our human response to danger
Olivia Hartley speaks to Laura Dodsworth about face masks, religious faith, and how public health has become a criminal justice matter
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
