WWI
How modern wars end
History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end
Why we must remember
The notion that freedom comes at a price seems to be one that escapes us
Invisible hand
Did peace prevail in the World Wars thanks to providential deliverance, or just a number of very fortunate occurrences?
A contemptible little army?
How successfully did Britain’s armed forces adapt to the reality of the First World War?
France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about what made French politics and society distinctive in the decades before and after WWI
Tank warfare – its past and future
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the century of the tank
Reel hell of the Western Front
The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
