Frederick the Great
The roots of German militarism
Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
