Richard Hopton
Richard Hopton is an author, historian and journalist. His latest novel, The Straits of Treachery, is published by Allison & Busby. He tweets at @richard_hopton
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees