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
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
“Nympho” rides again
Mental housemistresses and banners displaying children in boaters
Turn down that bloody music
Historic occasions shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats
Harriet Pester: Bookworld PR
Alas, not everything is plain sailing in the world of book-trade PR
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…