History in the Age of Woke
Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind
A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
Classless Act
Gavin Stamp believed in what he saw. Roger Scruton saw what he believed in
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Why observe the laws the EU won’t?
Brussels has a very distinctive attitude towards its sacred legal order
FDR is no hero – he shouldn’t be Boris’s role model
Is Boris’s ‘Rooseveltian’ revival really what the country needs?
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
A moral case for Universal Basic Income
A neoliberal argument for UBI based on individual freedom and property rights
The vacuity of the Democratic National Convention
Biden’s cheerleaders prove there’s nothing to get excited about
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse
Love, work and whimsy
MacDonald Gill’s poster for the Empire Marketing Board helped promote a nation at the height of its powers
The authoritarian groupthink of the left
How civil liberties organisations are more concerned with playing to their online audiences
Britain’s new East of Suez defence policy
Should the Royal Navy re-establish its presence in the Asia-Pacific region?
The campus grievance industry
An illiberal network of activists and quangos threatens our cherished academic freedom