Land
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
