Category: Politics

  • 11/06/2025
    Power and money - by Jonty Bloom - Jonty’s Jottings Musk is lucky, if he was in Russia he would…
  • 02/06/2025
    Jim Dickinson over at WONKHE. If you are interested in higher education this article is worth a sympathetic and nuanced…
  • 16/05/2025
    Pope Francis’s illusions - New Statesman If Francis was defeated in his efforts to shape the world, defeated in his…
  • 10/05/2025
    Timothy Garton Ash writing in the Financial Times Brace for disorder as the great power shifts begin As we pass…
  • 08/05/2025
    Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich What sort of people drove the Third Reich, Richard Evans asks. There…
  • 05/05/2025
    ‘A new reality began to dawn’: the fall of Saigon, 50 years on Chris Mullin writing in the Guardian. Why,…
  • 05/05/2025
    Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ - The Atlantic “When President Donald Trump canceled a visit…
  • 12/04/2025
    Betty Webb never spoke about her work, until she had to. Another wonderful obituary from The Economist She herself had…
  • 07/04/2025
    Alan Rusbridger writing in Prospect Do you remember Julian Assange’s catchphrase, “Courage is contagious?” I think he may have borrowed…
  • 26/03/2025
    the most ambitious crossover - Dan Davies - "Back of Mind" You can’t do Thatcherism without an oil boom, you…