Napoleon Bonaparte
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Napoleon sold short
On Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and the challenge of biopics
A magisterial study of war and strategy
Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius
The regal rise of le petit caporal
Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution
Gods and monsters
Even in secular regimes, theology always has its revenge
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
Napoleon’s shifting reputation
Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart about Napoleon’s reputation
Napoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the myth
Olivia Hartley and Dr Arabella Byrne talk about Napoleon’s legacy and why the French love anniversaries
Napoleon Bonaparte: A PR nightmare
On the bicentenary of his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains a curiously stubborn rampart of cultural history in France and beyond
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
