Military History
Confronting or managing decolonisation?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s military campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s
British forces on the offensive 1943-45
Professor Jeremy Black speaks with Graham Stewart about the naval firepower, the RAF’s bombing offensive and the campaigns in Greece, Italy and Normandy
The British military in the Second World War – slow or quick learners?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how Britain’s armed forces adapted to the challenges of fighting the Second World War
Britain’s armed forces during the rise of Hitler
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the state and preparedness of Britain’s armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
