Artillery Row

Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career

What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?

Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart

Islamophobia and the suicide of the West

In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia

Dominic Cummings and the illusion of control

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how woefully mistaken Cummings’ hopes were for lasting civil service reform

Braving the woke mob is a prisoner’s dilemma

Nicholas Shackel, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Cardiff, explains how to turn the prisoner’s dilemma into the free speaker’s game

Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?

In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Is it time to cancel Roald Dahl – or to celebrate him?

We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe

Former spin doctor divulges on India’s ruling dynasty

Sanjay Jha’s new book reveals the degeneration of the oldest party in the world’s largest democracy

How detached will Northern Ireland be from Brexit Britain?

Despite agreement in the Joint Committee, the disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland remains considerable

A sequel too far

Brexit Academy: Assignment Miami Beach