How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
The changing shape of British roads
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart walk the winding path of British transport history
Advance, legionaries
The Romans and the development of British roads
Blurred thin blue lines (w/ Lisa Townsend)
How ideology can interfere with policing
Lies, damned lies, and biopics
Ridley Scott’s casual treatment of truth in Napoleon does a disservice to both history and storytelling
Geopolitics in the modern world
How does it help us to understand our times?
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
Please look after this bear
A bedraggled Rishi Sunak chases the pity vote
Post election rundown
Three very sleepy men discuss the election result
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
It should have been Jezza
A neutral and unbiased guide to persecuting the problematic
