History
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
