Idriss Deby Itno
Front line dictator
What the death of Idriss Deby Itno in battle means for the fight against Islamic terrorism
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
