Europe
We need to talk about Holocaust issues, but also remember righteous heroes
Marking the European Day of the Righteous, the Polish Ambassador to the UK says that public debate on the Holocaust must remember the praiseworthy acts of righteous people
The Polish perspective
Why has the history of Poland, what was a large country, an important economy and an interesting polity, been marginalised by historians?
French Connections
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart France’s historical inheritance
France since De Gaulle: a radical or conservative republic?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about French reforms and continuities from Georges Pompidou to Francois Hollande.
Conte’s conundrum
How has Italy’s Giuseppe Conte defied the odds and become a consequential political figure in his own right?
Despatch from St Moritz
Why are the international super-rich insufficiently grateful to the British?
To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
None should sleep
A TOSCCA conversation on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus
Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?
Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?
How should Boris navigate the Internal Market Bill?
What options are open for the PM as Brexit negotiations continue to languish?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
