History
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
Tom Holland: A Christian hero?
Marketing Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’ as a Christian product would be a kiss of death in the UK, but it works across the pond
Face facts: the Union is a dead duck
English nationalism is returning from its long slumber, ready to stand proud once again
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea