American Civil War
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
History in the taking
History is being rewritten, and statues can stop it
Could it really happen here?
A podcast on the possibility of a second civil war reveals the dangerous polarisation that few Americans – including its host – can escape
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What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
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Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
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We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
How the sausage gets made
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There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment