Debunking myths of the Great Divergence
Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention
The making of a maelstrom
How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
