History
The curse of history
Campaign Diary: the war in Ukraine in context
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
Just a pill?
How psychiatry pathologises female experience
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
The Great Game
Professor Jeremy Black on the 19th century cold war over Asia between Russian and Britain
Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
The Eastern Question and the origins of The Great Game
How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
