Artillery Row

Napoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the myth

Olivia Hartley and Dr Arabella Byrne talk about Napoleon’s legacy and why the French love anniversaries

Hartlepool and the dignity of Labour

After losing Hartlepool to the Conservatives, the Labour Party would do well to take heed of Jon Cruddas’s new book

Truman and Tennessee: an unlikely friendship

Michael Collins maps the relationship between two of the greatest writers of the American south

The perils of privilege

Musa Okwonga’s memoir about his time at Eton is a confused account of having access to everywhere but belonging nowhere

Iran’s hostage diplomacy

The UK Government’s reluctance to acknowledge Iran’s hostility shows the bizarre lengths to which countries must now go to appease Iran

Staying out is the hard part

There are no dominoes to fall in Afghanistan

Crowned heads and brass hats

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about military monarchs

I’m afraid of Americans

The culture war is not left against right, but the US against everyone else

A new refuge for controversial ideas is an indictment of academia

In a better world, the Journal of Controversial Ideas wouldn’t need to exist

The woodfired brick wall

It’s grim down south