History
Heroes, but not trans heroes: How two female artists defied the Nazis
Jeffrey Jackson’s lively and compassionate account plunges readers into the depths of the Occupation and the Channel Islands’ resistance movement
The iconic history of London’s 100 Club
Steve Morris recalls the iconic Oxford Street basement club which has housed London’s evolving music scene since the Second World War
Poirot’s little grey cells
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective
No coffee, please, but Ethiopia can burn
Ethiopia, the home of coffee, falls apart under the world’s muddled gaze while Portugal implements arbitrary Covid-19 restrictions on caffeine consumption
The Polish perspective
Why has the history of Poland, what was a large country, an important economy and an interesting polity, been marginalised by historians?
Is China heading for global empire or Soviet collapse?
Dan Blumenthal’s new book wants us to be pessimistic, realistic, and proactive
French Connections
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart France’s historical inheritance
Impeachment Follies: The case against conviction
Paul du Quenoy argues that Democrats are unlikely to achieve their dream of removing their most dangerous rival from contention in 2024
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?
What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department
If the Labour Party didn’t already exist, who would invent it today?
If Keir Hardie were still around, he might ask himself why he bothered to create a political party that has now lost its purpose
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
