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Why we don’t remember pandemics

Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics

Wise warnings matter even more in this age of pandemics and big data

Counting the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic

2020: Putting our pandemic in perspective

EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic

EI Weekly Listen – Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics

Art, History and Pandemics with Tom Holland

Geopolitics of a pandemic

This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic

EI Weekly Listen – Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic

Ancient lessons for modern crisis

The endless frontier

Cats rule

Doing our duty at home and abroad — A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy review

China: The great uncoupling

The empty metropolis

Rediscovering Germany

Meet the Zoomer generation

Future proof

Why we make lists

Are we ready for the new humans?

Working From Anywhere — the holiday never stops

The demon of the house

The People’s Republic of SF

Three victories and a defeat

Globalisation: why it went into retreat

What is England really made of?

What the Romans did for fun

Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement

Fighting back against Russia — the return of propaganda

Learning from Asian philosophies of rebirth

Playing with demons — how thought experiments guide scientific innovation

In praise of music’s uselessness

Rewriting Spanish history, one song at a time

From the Silk Road to the information superhighway

Time running out in China’s waiting game — The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi review

How Arcadia was won and lost and found again

Globalisation — lessons from George Canning on how to remake trade

The intelligent use of history — what is the past good for?

The possibility of elsewhere

Resilient London will regenerate

The History of Quarantine with Lincoln Paine

How Taiwan won the semiconductor race

Liberty at risk as threats to freedom grow

A Year in Ideas

Mustang: the heart of Nepal’s China dream

The invention of Catherine the Great

Books of the Year 2023

Turin’s touch of the divine

Chamonix’s Sea of Ice — warning to a warming world

The lost art of listening

In search of Proustian little moments that make life worthwhile

Great Books: E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops

The shifting fortunes of IS-Khorasan

The American dream making a come back

China rethinking its role

Troubled waters

Her Great Quality

Confucius, competition and modern China’s misuse of meritocracy

We were on a break

Classics in the cul-de-sacs

Good poetry in a crisis

First orders please

Nepal’s shifting loyalties — All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Conquest for the Himalayas by Amish Raj Mulmi review

Robert Adam and building beautiful

Do we really know what war is anymore? — The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide To The New Way of War by Mark Galeotti review

Inauguration and the power of American ritual

When artists retrain

The geopolitical fight to come over green energy

When disaster strikes

Battling for the best and brightest: immigration, great power rivalry, and the history of talent importation

More than a bandstand

Missing the theatre of everyday life

Space and the new struggle for civilisational supremacy

The Germans and their cars: history of a love affair

A world without glamorous Shanghai is the poorer for it

Towards an Arcadian future

Nature through the eyes of two Victorians: a birdwatcher and his big-game hunting brother

The Elizabethan era is laid to rest

How Elizabeth II created the role of the modern monarch

A very medieval cost of living crisis

Breaking the nuclear taboo

Sanctions as potent yet unwieldy weapons of war

The year the West woke up

What does Xi Jinping really think?

Trust is the key to geopolitical strength

The price of freedom

The future of war is here

The vitality of Western civilisation

Pulling at the threads of astrology

What is the British Army for?

Locked arms: looming threats to the Romania-NATO partnership

Pensions in a time of kings

Hacktivism’s Cold War Turns Hot

China-US rivalry risks dividing the EU

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — the first and only British woman to win a Nobel Prize in science

The ever-changing face of Istanbul

Epitaph on a mafioso’s grave

The ins and outs of the European project

Polycrisis? What polycrisis?

An endless dialogue between past and present

Securing Scandinavia

Europe’s eastward march

Explaining the Golden Era

The West needs to wake up

Fay Schopen, 1975-2023

The many meanings of the age of upheaval

A deep history of Canadian populism