A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Privilege
Privilege comes from the Latin privilegium, a bill or law giving advantage to a private individual
Gaslighting
The origins of the word
BBC iPlayer’s liberal conspiracy theory
Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television
The Republicans’ reality problem
MAGA cultists are leading the Republicans into unreality
Meet me at Ronnie’s
A new BBC documentary captures the spirit of the club that made London a global hub for jazz
Queer as a Chocolate Orange
Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”
Doggy style
Bestialists, radical agriculturalists and fashionable intellectuals will enjoy this book, especially the pictures
“Meme”
From a German zoologist to internet burns, Dominic Green charts the history of the word meme
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths