Zareer Masani
Dr Zareer Masani is a historian and author of biographies of Lord Macaulay and Indira Gandhi. You can find him on Twitter at @ZareerMasani
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
Elegy for the phoneless youth
The lost romance of growing up without the internet
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Blurred thin blue lines (w/ Lisa Townsend)
How ideology can interfere with policing
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Plane crash government
With Sunak’s agenda firmly earthbound and far from civilisation, some MPs are clearly contemplating cannibalism