We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
See, the conqu’ring hero comes – to be ridiculed by vegans
A Procrustean bed of critical theory is examining a British military hero – with predictable results
The key to the collapse of our cultural self-confidence
Why have our great cultural institutions been among the first to fall?
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
The day I was cancelled
A foolish figure of speech was enough to incur the hateful wrath of the politically correct mob
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
The NHS is the new Church — Militant and Triumphant
The clinical decisions rushed through in March had a single goal: to protect the reputation of the NHS
Capitalism 1, Big Government 0
South Korea did testing as we have done food — giving the market its head
Twitter trolls disprove the myth of intrinsic goodness
Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state
Are we trapped in our own version of The Truman Show?
The longer the pandemic and the platitudes go on, the more something doesn’t feel quite right
What are the new restrictions in England?
Boris Johnson says everyone must stay at home, but the rules are different to the March lockdown
Colonialism goes woke!
Australia abolishes parental rights, double-masking is double-plus-good, and the woke praise British Imperialism
John le Carré: a man who rose through the English class system as it was collapsing
John le Carré’s voice of old-fashioned English authority was one acquired through merit and bearing rather than birth
Letter from Washington: Is Biden serious about bipartisanship?
The president is pleasing progressives at the expense of his other campaign commitments
The legacy of David Bowie: five years, what a surprise
Alexander Larman on why the late, great David Bowie remains such a totemic and iconic figure in his life
Are the Bee Gees Britain’s most underrated band?
The Bee Gees have always been a target for mockery, but by force of talent and ambition, they managed to define the age around them
Etone for your sins
“Vulva owners”, Eton’s woke head master, and the BBC’s hagiography of BLM
The moral injuries in store for NHS workers
Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19
The dehumanising danger of social media
Josephine Bartosch says that far from facilitating an enriching meeting of minds, the online world is producing a dystopian world that is breaking us apart