Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payne is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent books in English are Civil War in Europe, 1905-1949 (2011) and The Spanish Civil War (2012), both published by Cambridge.
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Food for thought
Is it worth trapping the squirrels in my London garden?
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models