Black’s History Week
The long view: Britain’s armed force
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black on how the British military has been shaped over the last two hundred years
What now for Britain’s armed forces?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the future role of Britain’s armed forces
Fighting for the new world order
How Britain’s armed forces adapted to new challenges following the end of the Cold War
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
How the British Army fought the IRA
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles
Allies at war
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British contribution to the Allied victory
A contemptible little army?
How successfully did Britain’s armed forces adapt to the reality of the First World War?
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
How exceptional is Britain’s monarchy?
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black discuss British and European conceptions of monarchy throughout history
Joined-up strategy?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how US and British defence and security reviews depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
