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?
The fall of the House of Rejoin
A popular cause has withered into an elitist dinner club
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard