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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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
