Artillery Row
The British military in the Second World War – slow or quick learners?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how Britain’s armed forces adapted to the challenges of fighting the Second World War
Activism works
If this stuttery, scatterbrained autist can become an activist, there really is no excuse for anybody else
All the world’s a stage
For Boris there’s no difficulty transitioning from panel shows to PMQs
Ralph Fiennes, Four Quartets and the future of theatre
It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal
Nobody expects the BBC Inquisition
The man who would do anything for a scoop
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires Diary 8.0
Dominic Hilton meets a nun on national day and tries an Argentine MRI
How I brought down Theresa May
Christopher Howarth on his role in removing a prime minister
Murders for late June
From midnight Parisian walks and femmes fatales to jazz and corruption, Jeremy Black rounds up the best murders
Frost knocks on
Tugendhat tackles the Cabinet Office’s Mr Task Force Europe
Yes we can hate GB News
It’s not Oliver Dowden’s business to tell us whom we may boycott
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
