History
A short history of war
Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war
Making sense of the SNP
Anglo-Scottish relations from a historical perspective
Fifth Column
Goldsmiths University wants to topple the men who saved England
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
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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
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment