European History
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
When nationalism was woke
After the events of 1848, Europe was never the same again
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
