Jonathan Healey
Jonathan Healey is a lecturer in English local and social history at the University of Oxford. Follow him at @SocialHistoryOx
Raw and immersive tale of the Civil War
The siege of Basing House encompasses all of England in microcosm
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind