Great Power Politics

The Oligarchy: A Short History

What history can teach us about the pitfalls of an oligarchic society

Oct 31 • 

Jonathan Bell

3

August 2025

Gladstone and the Midlothian Campaign

Foreign policy and the birth of modern political campaigns

Aug 18 • 

Jonathan Bell

7

March 2025

Africa and the Aristocracy

The British aristocrats who kickstarted the scramble for Africa

Mar 17 • 

Jonathan Bell

9

1

February 2025

The Decembrist Revolt

The psychology of encounters and Russian history

Feb 3 • 

Jonathan Bell

6

1

January 2025

What Is National Populism?

How the backlash against liberalism has reshaped politics – and why so many still fail to grasp it

Jan 1 • 

Jonathan Bell

6

2

November 2024

Power and Patronage in the Roman Republic

Clients, patrons and social order

Nov 25, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

5

Burke and the Little Platoons

Rootedness, conservatism and the state

Nov 16, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

6

1

August 2024

The Golden Age of Capitalism

How the post-war consensus led to a period of unprecedented prosperity

Aug 17, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

6

July 2024

The Art of the Supermajority

How the 1931 General Election changed British politics

Jul 8, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

3

June 2024

The Politics of Disorder

From Nixon to Ancient Rome, fear of disorder has always had a vital role in politics

Jun 6, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

5

May 2024

History, Power and Paranoia

What the reimagining of Bratislava Castle can teach us about totalitarianism

May 21, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

5

January 2024

Trump and the Fall of Caesar

The Roman Republic teaches us that politics can be brutal - and unpredictable

Jan 14, 2024 • 

Jonathan Bell

4

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