Bruce Coleman
Bruce Coleman is a former head of the Department of History, University of Exeter
An exercise in self-flagellation
Bruce Coleman finds that this book on the West India Interest is more polemical than historical
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
