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?
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience