Professor Jeremy Black
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once