On a different plane
British air power in theory and practice
The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Ideas, influence and international politics
The academic origins of geopolitics explained
What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Hitting the buffers — when rail fails
Bold projections and frustrating results
Rail riddles — the complex practicalities of rail travel
The realities of rail, from the US to China
Tracking modernity — trains in the modern world
On the complex realities of rail
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The lies of Sinn Fein
Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
