Does history have meaning?
Graham Stewart talks to Professor Jeremy Black about whether the past can be a servant to the present
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?
In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Gove Accords
What is the significance of Michael Gove’s Brexit agreement?
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
Crunching the numbers
If Labour had voted against restrictions, could the Covid rebels have won?
Tank warfare – its past and future
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the century of the tank
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
