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
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
Something in the Bath water
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
