Dan Waterfield
Dan Waterfield is a Social Democrat with a PhD in History. He tweets at @danwaterfield
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The problem with scapegoating social media
Social media has become a convenient whipping boy for Britain’s political class
