Conor McKee
Conor McKee is an historian with a special interest in the medieval poem Piers Plowman.
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Old-fashioned history
Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
