The changing shape of British roads
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart walk the winding path of British transport history
Advance, legionaries
The Romans and the development of British roads
Blurred thin blue lines (w/ Lisa Townsend)
How ideology can interfere with policing
Lies, damned lies, and biopics
Ridley Scott’s casual treatment of truth in Napoleon does a disservice to both history and storytelling
Geopolitics in the modern world
How does it help us to understand our times?
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
Sparks within the cold
There are rarely easy answers in geopolitics
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Before the wall’s fall
Geopolitical maneuverings between the East and the West
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
