History
Frustrate their knavish tricks?
Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?
Wandering women
The women who always walked alone
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
Could Harry and Meghan have learnt from Edward and Wallis?
Graham Stewart and Alexander Larman discuss how the House of Windsor adapts and endures
Anyone for abdication?
A vivid retelling of an infamous constitutional crisis
What made eighteenth century Britain such an innovative society?
And how did Britain become a trendsetting nation?
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
Grace under pressure?
How effective have high-risk media events been for French foreign policy?
History in the Age of Woke
Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind
How Europe slowly came to terms with the Holocaust
And with what shifting emphasis do different countries remember the crime? Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
