Robert Colls
Robert Colls is Professor Emeritus of History at De Montfort University.
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless