Andrew Roberts

Dec 16, 2024 | thespectator.com | Andrew Roberts

The talented military historian Max Boot has published a well-researched life of Ronald Reagan — Reagan: His Life and Legend — that is fundamentally wrong. First the good parts: he has combed through lots of archives finding new information and has interviewed countless people who worked with or knew Reagan. His style also bears the reader effortlessly along.

Mar 14, 2024 | anothermag.com | Andrew Roberts |Abbas Amanat |Sophie Bew |Piers Brando’s

The Iranian-born American artist talks about the four books that helped her understand history, and how we can use these to understand ways artists can communicate today This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of AnOther Magazine: “How do we hold the present, the effects of conflict, when it’s so devastating? How can we hold it in a historical way without being overcome by it?

Dec 16, 2023 | thespectator.com | Limor Simhony Philpott |David Abulafia |Amy Everett |Andrew Roberts

When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a fifty-minute phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin last weekend, it was only the second time the two leaders had spoken since the war against Hamas started on October 7. The two leaders were once close allies, but no longer: relations between Putin and Netanyahu have now fractured, perhaps beyond repair. In a statement released immediately after the call, Netanyahu criticized Russia’s close alliance with Iran.

Dec 16, 2023 | thespectator.com | David Abulafia |Amy Everett |Andrew Roberts |Deborah Ross

It is becoming a familiar conundrum: whether to employ actors who match the ethnicity of the person they are portraying. Helen Mirren made the mistake of playing Golda Meir in a truly dreadful new film. The real mistake there was not the use of a non-Jewish actress, as some have complained, but the appalling quality of the script and production. Cleopatra was recently played by a black woman in a recent Netflix production, although the evidence strongly suggest she was fair-skinned.

Dec 15, 2023 | thespectator.com | Amy Everett |Andrew Roberts |Deborah Ross |Peter Wood

Boston Harbor Hotel, 6:42 a.m. I tossed on a robe, had a fight with an unfamiliar coffee machine, then threw back my bedroom curtains to soak up the best part of chronic jet lag. Fuschia skies intensified before a beautifully fat, gold sun peeped above the horizon. Some hours later, a three-tier stand stacked with PB&J sandwiches, smoked salmon, vanilla bean scones and fig jam obscured the same uninterrupted view, from the Rowes Wharf Sea Grille downstairs.