Thirty Years War
Return of the mercenaries
Putin’s hired killers have money on their minds
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
