History
Allsopp’s: the rebirth of the original Burton IPA
The Allsopp family has revived the original Burton IPA which made its name and fortune more than a century ago
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
Ahistorical rubbish
David Frum is wrong, the Salazar regime’s “biggest project” was a success
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Confronting or managing decolonisation?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s military campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s
Spain and me
David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Nero: zero or hero?
Despite everything we thought we knew, Nero may just possibly be regarded as a half-decent emperor
From fighting Fascists to confronting Communists
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s armed forces 1945-1952
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
