History
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries