Professor Jeremy Black
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane