Robert Lyman
Robert Lyman is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He tweets at @robert_lyman
Master of sword and word
Field Marshal William Slim was not only Britain’s greatest military field commander, but our finest soldier-writer, too
When young men headed East
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds