Ronald Asch
Ronald G. Asch, now retired, held until last year the chair of early modern history in the university of Freiburg. He has published widely on 16th and 17th century European and British history, including the origins of the Thirty Years War and on the history of kingship and of nobilities as a social and cultural elite. He tweets at @aschronald
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make