Thirty Years War
Georges de La Tour: From Shadow to Light
Transporting you into a wonderful candlelit world where nothing can intrude on permanent tranquillity
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something