Military History
Against history snobs
Al Murray proves himself to be more than a popular historian
Surprise in war
Ukraine shows that speed can be everything — but swiftness is born of careful planning
Who cares who wins
The mythology of the SAS
A magisterial study of war and strategy
Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius
Egypt’s secret Nazi brains trust
After a humiliating defeat in the war over Israel, the Egyptians wanted revenge
Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
The roots of German militarism
Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow
A bridge to nowhere
The meaning of the Kerch attack
Lessons from the brink
We should not be complacent about nuclear war
I miss the stiff upper lip
Some social constructions deserve to be kept
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
