History
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Obituaries — the unvarnished truth?
Why we should speak ill of the dead
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
The SPD
Many of Germany’s present woes were anticipated by Schröder’s time in office
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
The fall of East Germany
German reunification – merger or acquisition?
Rewriting the past in Northern Ireland
Are the UK Research and Innovation Councils fit for purpose?
East Germany — the illusion of Communist prosperity
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany
How West Germany rode the storm
Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
