History
The fall of East Germany
German reunification – merger or acquisition?
Rewriting the past in Northern Ireland
Are the UK Research and Innovation Councils fit for purpose?
East Germany — the illusion of Communist prosperity
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany
How West Germany rode the storm
Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart
A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
Return of the 60s neurosis
Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today
July: Letters to the Editor
The Reformation has left us with a precious legacy
Most Read
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
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself