European History
Our true European home
With Brexit settled, Britain must seek to engage with its unalterably European cultural heritage and identity
Why central Europe has always mattered
Globalism is nothing new
Riches of the east
Mikanowski’s timely book pours iridescent light on the lands and peoples of Eastern Europe
History to be heeded
The evils of Hitler and Stalin should haunt us today
King of the Italians
Why Berlusconi was loved in spite of everything
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
A tale of two tribes
The diverging fates of Central Europe’s Roma and Jewish musicians
Toryism à la mode
Could the legacy of French Gaullism breathe life into a listless British conservatism?
Heirs to Byzantium
Unlike Putin, the British have never really understood the central importance of Constantinople to European history
The miracle of the Constitution
On 3 May 1791, Poland became the cradle of constitutionalism in continental Europe
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
