Robert Crowcroft
Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War. He tweets at @RCrowcroft
Britain’s constitutional knowledge crisis
Rory Stewart’s ignorance smells of Remainer entitlement
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point