History
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
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
The Unnatural Herstory Museum
There is no real reason for museums to segregate what was hers and his
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
Punta del where?
Old Europe lives on in the new world
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all