Podcast
Have queens enjoyed the same authority as kings?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role of the queen in British and European history
Crown, cross and altar
The centrality of religion to the status and mission of monarchy in Britain and Europe
Crowned heads and brass hats
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about military monarchs
How exceptional is Britain’s monarchy?
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black discuss British and European conceptions of monarchy throughout history
Jane Austen’s social and political world
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited
The role of prime minister from Gladstone to Johnson
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart on how the role of the Prime Minister has changed in the past 200 years
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
Has China initiated a Cold War against Britain and the United States?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith gives his assessment to Graham Stewart
Joined-up strategy?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how US and British defence and security reviews depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview
The cancelled charity boss who wants to be mayor
David Scullion speaks to Nick Buckley about his ambitions for Manchester
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?