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The deep roots of Anglo-German relations
Napoleon’s nest of vipers
Russia’s war on Ukrainian science
Space and the new clash of civilisations
Reinventing Disraeli
The scramble for the Middle East
The novel in Britain: from cover to cover
Journeys in Europe’s grey zone
Machiavelli still matters
The entire history of cinema in one shot
America’s universal document: a curious history
The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey
How wine made the modern world
The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past
The diplomats who defeated Hitler
The political power of knowing your enemy
The return of the Great Powers
Germany’s new old nuclear dilemma
250 years of the American experiment
Where is Russia’s place in the world?
Christianity’s debt to Rome
Jean Eustache: the outsider who reshaped French cinema
How to end a war
Testament to doomed media
Why Armenia’s elections matter
Len Deighton’s spycraft
China's bid for economic supremacy
A Jewish-American dream
Muslims and Jews' shared inheritance
Finding Turkey in Narnia
The life and legacy of Steve Schapiro
Agent Zo, the spy who saved Poland
Lewis and Clark’s American Odyssey
Why powerful individuals are dominating politics
Weimar’s descent into darkness
The civilising wonders of wine
Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?
The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
Universities are at crisis point
The anatomy of the spy novel
The roots of the West’s identity crisis
Iran’s strange Scottish obsession
Washington’s return to Latin America
The Houthis’ forever war
Can epic poetry revive History?
The need for muscular liberalism
The first butterfly collectors
Trump’s imperial worldview
The strange death of private life
The Gulf’s Iran dilemma
The rise of the mega-influencer
Putin, the once and future Chekist
When Edo became Tokyo
Hamlet unravelled
The making of Xi Jinping's worldview
Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading
Inside the world of medieval espionage
The Monroe Doctrine: The United States’ hemispheric strategy explained
The strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson
The instability of a multipolar era
Why the brain is the ultimate weapon of war
The end of Pax Britannica
The classical key to the AI revolution
The Risorgimento myth
China's quest to engineer the future
The double agent who introduced Japan to the West
Lessons from the Wall Street Crash
1821 and the invention of world order
The growing-pains of Graham Greene
The Slavic War according to Stalin
A warning to the young: just say no to AI
The Slow Horses are Britain’s perfect spies
Stephen Kotkin on a new age of warfare
The Great French Songbook
Our attention dilemma is age-old
How the state can do more for less
The espionage revolution
Graham Greene's Vietnam
How the Nazis weaponised Charlemagne
Why do we get the wrong leaders?
Why liberal democracies win total wars
No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
The rift that doomed the Confederacy
The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece
How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
The lost art of chorography
1975, the year that made the modern world
How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
What happened to the politician’s moustache?
The strange death of squalor
Why Finns joined the fight
The West’s lust for liberty
Christianity and the creation of England
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
The German key to European liberty
The making of Trump's worldview
How Russia negotiates
Liberty under attack