Post Office campaigner Alan Bates knighted in king’s birthday honours
Ex-post office operator recognised for exposing Horizon IT scandal, while Tracey Emin becomes a dame and Gordon Brown a companion of honour
May 2021
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson review – information overload
This dizzying history tour of disasters takes its lead from Covid, and China’s role in ‘cold war II’, but offers little clarity
July 2020
'Free speech has never been freer': Pankaj Mishra and Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation
Are we living through a moment of lasting change? Two authors discuss Black Lives Matter, the Harper’s letter and where we go from here
April 2019
Niall Ferguson isn’t upset about free speech. He’s upset about being challenged
Dawn Foster
Powerful people used to express their views on others unopposed. Now their targets fight back, they find it intolerable, says Guardian columnist Dawn Foster
June 2018
Niall Ferguson quits Stanford free speech role over leaked emails
British historian resigns after urging ‘opposition research’ be done on a leftwing student
April 2018
How will we cope when the last middle-class man slumps to the ground?
Suzanne Moore
To hear the likes of Niall Ferguson, he is part of an endangered species. A strange new phenomenon seems to have struck him and his media chums: victim-envy
October 2017
Book of the day
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson review – a new understanding of global history?
Don’t leave networks to conspiracy theorists, argues the prolific historian in a book that ranges from the Illuminati to Brexit and Trump
September 2017
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson review – a restless tour through power
The historian’s breadth of reference is impressive in this study of networks and hierarchies – but his conclusions are underwhelming
May 2016
Vote to leave EU would 'condemn Britain to irrelevance', say historians
Letter signed by more than 300 prominent historians says voters can ‘stiffen cohesion of our continent in a dangerous world’
March 2016
Economics viewpoint
Trade policy is no longer just for political nerds: it matters in the UK and US
Larry Elliott Economics editor
Rise of outsiders such as Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn reflects sense of being left behind by globalisation
October 2015
Israel needs cultural bridges, not boycotts – letter from JK Rowling, Simon Schama and others
Point of view
History v historical fiction
Book of the day
Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson review – a case of wobbly logic
Culture webchats
Niall Ferguson webchat – as it happened
September 2015
Niall Ferguson interview: ‘Public life these days is a cascade of abuse’
The books interview: The firebrand historian on the ‘inconsequential quibbles’ of the left, our culture of Correct Politicalness and and why Henry Kissinger is misunderstood
January 2014
Britain entering first world war was 'biggest error in modern history'
Historian Niall Ferguson says Britain could have lived with German victory and should have stayed out of war
December 2013
A bizarre attack against me
Guardian Environment Blogs
Teaching Niall Ferguson a (Colombian) history lesson
September 2013
Books blog
The big short – why Amazon's Kindle Singles are the future
Julian Gough: All hail the 'bookeen', a new format that's perfect for short stories, novellas and essays
May 2013
History is where the great battles of public life are now being fought
Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt: From curriculum rows to Niall Ferguson's remarks on Keynes, our past is the fuel for debate about the future
