Military History
Warfare in the classical world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome
The myth of the plucky Brit
Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars
A short history of war
Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war
The long view: Britain’s armed force
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black on how the British military has been shaped over the last two hundred years
A town called Egmont
A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands
What now for Britain’s armed forces?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the future role of Britain’s armed forces
Britain’s military performance in Iraq and Afghanistan
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the performance of the British forces in the war on terror
Fighting for the new world order
How Britain’s armed forces adapted to new challenges following the end of the Cold War
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
How the British Army fought the IRA
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
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
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
