History
Hail to the Chief (Part IV)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the Second World War.
The dictionary of the demagogues
In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
Past imperfectionists
The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers
Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?
Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?
American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago
Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach
The day the dictators met
Thankfully, the two fascist leaders’ meeting at Hendaye remains nothing more than a footnote in history
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
Conflict in the Caucasus
How much worse will the historic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh get?
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
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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
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe