David Swift
David Swift is an author and historian whose books include The Identity Myth. He tweets at @davidswift87
The bright future of Scouse Tories
There are plenty of blues among the reds
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The mythologised history of the Left
Nearly everything you think you know about the history of the Labour Party is false
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education