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
Time to change the programme
The failed doctrine of liberal multiculturalism has dominated British political discourse for too long
A fearless, serious historian
A tribute to John Charmley, bold revisionist biographer of Chamberlain and Churchill
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?
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
