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Adventures with the English

5 days ago | thearticle.com | Raymond Keene

Member ratings Well argued: 100% Interesting points: 100% Agree with arguments: 100% 1 rating - view all This week I celebrate the achievements of Howard Staunton, the only English player with a claim to have been world chess champion. In those days, best in Europe meant best in the world.
British Steel: selling the family silver

1 week ago | thearticle.com | Alain Catzeflis |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Why do we keep selling what Harold Macmillan called “the family silver”? And why, when things don’t work or are about to go bust, do we expect the government to rescue our strategic industries, such as steel, burdened with crippling levels of debt partly incurred to line the pockets of wealthy foreign investors? Here’s another question: how come we’ve only just woken up to the fact that China may not always have our best interests at heart?
Belsen and Auschwitz on the BBC | TheArticle

1 week ago | thearticle.com | David Herman |Sameer Hinduja

This year marks a number of very special anniversaries related to the Holocaust: in particular, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz last January and this week of Belsen, two of the most infamous Nazi camps. Earlier this month BBC2 and BBC iPlayer showed two powerful new documentaries marking these events, The Road to Auschwitz (a BBC2/PBS co-production) which despite its title is mainly about different phases of the Holocaust and was presented by the historian Simon Schama.
Bullion in Breslau

1 week ago | thearticle.com | Raymond Keene

One of the most celebrated legends of chess lore concerns a game won by the American champion and grandmaster Frank Marshall in 1912 at the tournament of Breslau, then in the German Empire (now Wroclaw in Poland). Marshall sacrificed his Queen in sparkling fashion and was allegedly rewarded with a shower of gold coins by the astonished and admiring throng of spectators.
Two fallacies: Starmer’s growth and Trump’s tariffs

2 weeks ago | thearticle.com | David Howell |Sameer Hinduja

It’s no good. As we all know perfectly well from childhood, a house built on sand cannot stand. Yet the economic models being currently paraded – and followed — on both sides of the Atlantic as the bases for action, are clogged to the brim with the dirtiest of sand, and will, with absolute certainty, fall before very long. The American one has started to crumble already.
The 2025 Oliviers: small is beautiful

2 weeks ago | thearticle.com | David Herman

Member ratings This article has not been rated yet. Be the first person to rate this article. There weren’t many surprises at the 2025 Olivier Awards. That’s not to say the winners didn’t deserve their awards.
Chess, Go and global diplomacy

2 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Raymond Keene

Of the major board games, Draughts relies primarily on material superiority to achieve victory. Meanwhile Go (known in China as Wei Chi) depends on control of territory. Only chess, where triumph is ultimately and solely confirmed by checkmate, transcends all elements of material, time or space. Although such factors may well contribute to an advantage, only checkmate, or its inevitability, can confer the final and decisive laurels.
‘Liberation Day’ could make Britain great again | TheArticle

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Stephen Rand |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

“Liberation Day” saw Trump at his Trumpiest. Made for television, aimed squarely at his populist base. Either you’re with us or against us—and those who are against us are conspirators who will be crushed. The policy itself was blunt: a 10% blanket levy on all imports into the United States, with targeted tariffs of up to 54% for major rivals. It sent a shudder through the global trading system. And yet, for once, Britain appears to have dodged the worst of it.
Face to Face: the BBC’s finest hour?

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | David Herman |Ali M. Mahmoud

I was recently interviewed on BBC4 about the famous BBC interview series, Face to Face, originally shown between 1959-62, and then reborn as part of BBC 2’s The Late Show, between 1989-98. My interview is now available here on BBC iPlayer. The original series of Face to Face was a series of interviews, conducted by John Freeman. It became well known for a number of reasons. Freeman was an accomplished interviewer and a well-known figure in post-war British culture.
Can Europe save Ukraine?

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Laszlo Solymar |Sameer Hinduja

Is it too late for Europe to save Ukraine? The slumber lasted far too long. We need to wake up. As a 19th century Hungarian poet wrote in a different context: “Rabok leszunk vagy szabadok, ez a kerdes valasszatok”.(“Shall we be slaves or free men? This is the question, you have to choose.”)This is not a rhetorical question. If Ukraine falls it will be followed in a chain reaction by the Baltic States, by Poland, by Moldova, by the Czech Republic, by Slovakia, in fact by all of Eastern Europe.