Artillery Row
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
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
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
Historiography made exciting
A new book from Richard Davenport-Hines makes history interesting and enjoyable
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
