Irish Politics

Educating Margaret

How Margaret Thatcher was persuaded to sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement

World History

Goodbye Schweinhund, Hallo Nachbar?

A number of recently published books give hope that the ‘fog of war’ which has blanketed the modern British view of Germany is beginning to…

World History

Getting By

Jacques Rivière claimed that great writers could not be great moral characters, because their necessarily self-centred natures made them poorly equipped for devotion and sacrifice,…

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The kaiser was a pioneer in the notion of using Turkey as a bridge between Europe and the Islamic world. The events chronicled in this…