History
Brought to book
Vexed by Insta videos and impressed by Venice
Before the wall’s fall
Geopolitical maneuverings between the East and the West
Just a little note to say “I hate you”
Poisoned pens pierce the veil of sociable living
Red alert?
Apocalyptic intimations in the mid-1900s
New beginnings, old problems
How did geopolitics evolve in the aftermath of World War Two?
Gaslit history
It is hardly a surprise that most Britons have not heard of Quintus Lollius Urbicus
Fanfares for the common man
Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success
The ways of war
Geopolitics in understanding World War Two
Inn decline
There is an iconoclastic assault on the British pub — we need a campaign for real inn signs
Mysteries of history (w/ Samuel Rubinstein)
From the Anglo-Saxons to Israel and Palestine
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground