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
Sparks within the cold
There are rarely easy answers in geopolitics
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
