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
Why Roz Adams won
An employment tribunal has defended tolerance and the place of sex realism in society
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Is Britain’s future still being determined in Europe?
The European Court of Human Rights continues to shape policy here in the UK
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?