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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
