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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
