Germany
Are the Germans doing it better?
Putting the UK’s economic performance in perspective
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
War wounds of Polish history
Overcoming suffering can be a source of pride
The meaning of World War Two history
Our responsibility to remember
How West Germany rode the storm
Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
The unification of Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the path of German unification, from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the creation of Bismarck’s Reich
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
