Berlin
Cash only in Berlin
The city is struggling to remain itself
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
My gratitude to the Cold War
As the the British Army presence in Germany came to an end, so did a way of life that engraved itself into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Brits and Germans.
Winners of the Wall Game
A confident new Germany has consigned division to history
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
