Since around the end of 2013 there has been a moral panic around freedom of speech on British university campuses. This emerged after a number
During Britain’s strange summer of 2020, the statues of long-dead figures became live political issues. Black Lives Matter protestors threw slave-trader Edward Colston’s effigy into Bristol harbour, an act that shocked many, but that was
Letter writing was an important part of the transformation that notable medieval scholar Charles Homer Haskins describes as the ‘Twelfth Century Renaissance’. This, among other changes,
On 23 February 1945 Churchill invited all ministers outside the War Cabinet to his room at the House of Commons to hear his account of the Yalta conference and the one at Malta that had
‘You are seeking many things of me who am exceedingly busy, and you send a messenger who presses me too much at his own pleasure’.
The recent decision by US President Donald Trump to remove some American troops from Germany has brought much consternation to the international community. One interesting