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
John Longworth: My role in Brexit
…and why I broke away from Nigel Farage
George III – a much misunderstood monarch?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the sixty year reign of a man brought up to be the embodiment of a patriot king
Feminists must reject left and right
…and abused women are being let down. David Scullion speaks to Louise Perry and Julie Bindel
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
