The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
Has China initiated a Cold War against Britain and the United States?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith gives his assessment to Graham Stewart
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
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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
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate