History
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
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
My interiors life: weaned on the small screen
My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,
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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
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
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
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious