Category: History

  • 10/03/2025
    Trump is making Europe great again As one leading French businessman put it to me, with more than a touch…
  • 21/01/2024
    Kings of convenience Europe’s monarchies are a study in dignified inanity From the Economist. Every family has an heirloom which…
  • 02/01/2024
    Not leaving your kids alone UN aid chief Martin Griffiths: ‘The war in Gaza isn’t halfway through’ At least 136…
  • 07/11/2023
    Departure time 2023, arrival 1943 Timothy Garton Ash in the NYRB When I started writing my book Homelands: A Personal…
  • 21/07/2023
    UK exceptionalism The UK accounts for 2 per cent of global manufacturing and 2 per cent of global R&D. You’re…
  • 17/04/2023
    Intellectuals as protectors of integrity Via Adam Tooze On the courage of Vladimir Kara-Murza (his words below are via Tooze)…
  • 17/03/2022
    Are there limits to economic growth? It’s time to call time on a 50-year argument Nature today revisits the publication…
  • 25/06/2021
     Now I don’t have to feel so guilty Letter: Socialist historian foresaw Covid work habits in 1967 | Financial Times…
  • 23/06/2021
    The philosopher Stuart Hampshire served in British military intelligence during the Second World War. When we were colleagues at Princeton…
  • 06/05/2021
    Citizen of nowhere Prince Philip’s scaled-back funeral marks shifting times for UK’s royals | Financial Times Looking from askance, the…