Toussaint Louverture
Black Spartacus
The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments