Results for "Graham Stewart"
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Fielding Sterne questions
The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
Lies, damned lies, and biopics
Ridley Scott’s casual treatment of truth in Napoleon does a disservice to both history and storytelling
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
Sparks within the cold
There are rarely easy answers in geopolitics
The opposing eagles
Geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts
Blood on the tracks — rail transport between the wars
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf