Empire
The “Scramble for Africa”
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
Sherlock Holmes plays the white man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist
A literary pilgrimage to a watery grave
Following in the footsteps of the author J.G. Farrell
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Happily ever EFTA?
This genuine trade bloc is a chance for Britain to show international leadership
Battle of the leftists
Which group of non-teachers run the universities: Vice-chancellors or UCU leaders?
PMQs: The reboot
The main characters have their character arcs amusingly inverted
The rise of meta-horror
In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
Better men in prison than women in morgues
The feminist fix: Violent men — not alcohol, unemployment, COVID or stress — kill women
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
Brahms: Clarinet sonatas (BIS), French clarinet music (Delphian)
Three sonatas by Brahms? The clarinet adaptation, to no surprise, doesn’t work
Could the US be heading towards civil war?
A crash course on the causes of modern civil wars
What happened to British realpolitik?
Britain needs strategic realism and foresight, and most importantly, new thought leaders