Black’s History Week
American politics at the crossroads
And its short but bitter history
The Revolution’s shadow
How did conflict affect British politics?
Fielding Sterne questions
The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Has Ukraine changed modern warfare?
A historical perspective
House of Lords — keep, reform or abolish?
Why is there so little agreement?
Crisis? What crisis?
Maybe Old England isn’t done?
How Hitler won
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the Nazis won in 1933 with only a third of the vote
The Weimar Republic
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Weimar Republic and whether its collapse blinds us to its achievements
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
