PoW
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
