History hasn’t ended
Francis Fukuyama got it very wrong
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
The court of King Boris
Our everyday politics are court politics and Boris Johnson is king in all but name
The road to Hartlepool pier
The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously entertaining dissection of socialism
Making of a modern monarchy
The reformed Royal family sailed unscathed through the mid-century crises of the abdication, the Depression and the Second World War
Post-colonial bad jokes
The whole history of the West is — to confound the simplicities of the woke — one gigantic act of “cultural appropriation”
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
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
