From the Western Front to the Holocaust
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the use of rail travel in WW2, from the logistics of war to the architecture of genocide.
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
Rail and the development of the USA
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
We must restore the old to build the new
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
William Walton: Two symphonies
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
