Jonathan Parry
Jonathan Parry teaches modern British history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He tweets at @JonParryHis
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Pride’s heir
Removing Gavin Barwell sends a message, but Badenoch should go much further
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
