Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Lording it over us
Cameron may not be a welcome sight, but we should celebrate the return of peers to the cabinet
Our true European home
With Brexit settled, Britain must seek to engage with its unalterably European cultural heritage and identity
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
