Ruth Scurr
Ruth Scurr is the author of Napoleon: A Life in Gardens (2021). She tweets at @ScurrRuth
The regal rise of le petit caporal
Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all