Politicians beware as the public awakens from its Covid dream state.
History
Everything is about history & politics
Bill Clinton and the Schindler's List effect
The release of Spielberg's critically-acclaimed movie came at a telling moment during the Balkan Civil Wars.
The organisers of the Ballon d'Or awards seem to think so, but are they right?
From collectivism to infantilisim
How Covid-19 showed us what we have really become.
The Facebook influence problem
This is an important debate that will define freedom of speech and expression in the years, if not decades, to come.
Only time will tell if Joe Biden can recover from the Afghanistan crisis and surprise his critics next year, as Carter did in 1978.
The Italian wonder came and went like a rocket, leaving a trail of devotion and wonder in his wake, for which we should all be grateful.
A fierce combination on the field, Giggs and Scholes should be remembered as two of United's greatest.
The Jab
As controversial as Brexit, the Covid-19 vaccination has become the focus of ethnic division and debate.
Baseball, racism and Jackie Robinson
How a black baseball player from Georgia changed the face of American baseball and helped advance civil rights in America.
Not so predicted
The end of the Berlin Wall and European division came as a shock to Western security elites. As did what happened next.
History repeating
A parallelism seems to be developing between the Covid-19 crisis and one which struck the West 50 years ago.
Machine learning
Colossus: The Forbin Project is such an effective satire and here's why.
Great man of history
Purely by historical circumstance and in the face of internal opposition, John F. Kennedy saves the world.
Dissonance
Is it possible to divide time between then and now in the same way that countries can be divided and maps redrawn?
People violence
For many, the horrors of the Balkan civil wars came from their violence. But, what of the relationship of the key players to the power they suddenly acquired and what they did with it?
Existential
It quickly became the word of Brexit, but what does it mean? And how did Brexit become such an existential crisis?
Surprise!
For everyone, except for British voters. Or how Brexit showed everything had changed, even if the political elite did not quite notice it had done so at the time.