Political

Churchill’s vision of Britain’s role in the world may provide the key to Brexit.

The contrast between Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump could hardly be more striking, but such is the continually evolving politics of the Grand Old Party.

In using Churchill to justify his Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson 'paints a barbarically simplified and ill-informed picture of what Churchill stood for'.

Senator Barry Goldwater brought a new brand of Republicanism to American politics, writes Roger Hudson. 

As politics in Britain, Europe and the US descends into fragmentation and bitter division, Frank Prochaska commends the civilising voice of Walter Bagehot.

The powerful influence exercised by Thomas, Lord Wharton, before the Reform Act of 1832.

During recent turmoil, Greeks have called on their history to form their political protests and criticise the powers they feel are oppressing them.

One of the most brilliant intellectuals of his age, Isaiah Berlin voiced impeccably liberal views.  Yet were his political beliefs compromised by some unsavoury associations?

Just half a century on from Magna Carta, a radical noble, part idealist, part megalomaniac, came into conflict with King John’s son, Henry III. The result, argues Nigel Saul, was a form of assembly which shapes English political life to this day.