Gregor Dallas, author and historian, takes a look at the political and financial troubles of the last few months. He agrees with the archbishops that the problem is essentially a moral one. And he proposes an iron law of history. Perhaps what history will remember most about the Great Crisis (...)

Looking back over my own life, I realize the part individualism has played in my writing. You can’t invite the ’middle class’ out for tea, any more than you can go for a walk in the woods with the ’working class’. It is individuals who shape history, not collective groups – these abstract entities (...)

The following article was published on the Channel 4 website following a commentary made by the author on a television programme about the First World War and the origin of the German Nazi movement. The author argues that the Western democracies completely misunderstood the message behind (...)

Lord Robert Skidelsky’s review of the American edition of 1945: The War That Never Ended is quite the best analysis made to date of the author’s work, though it is of course limited to the last volume of the War-and-Peace trilogy. Nonetheless, the implications of this analysis — as any careful (...)