Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
It is time to bury Boris
Every day of Johnson as PM is another day in which the Tory party sinks deeper into crisis
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
