Podcast
Conspiracies: theory and practice
Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events
Born digital
Graham Stewart talks to Alex Story and Robert Wigley about the dangers of our addiction to digital information
Which political diaries are worth taking seriously?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart the craft and value of the political diarist
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
How the government has exploited our human response to danger
Olivia Hartley speaks to Laura Dodsworth about face masks, religious faith, and how public health has become a criminal justice matter
Perspectives on Churchill
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Winston Churchill’s career up to 1940
Poirot’s little grey cells
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth
French Connections
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart France’s historical inheritance
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
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
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Keep your kids off social media
Childhood is too precious to be turned into content