Minoo Dinshaw
Minoo Dinshaw is working on a book about political moderates during the run-up to the civil wars in seventeenth-century Britain. He is both maternally and maritally Scottish and tweets at @MinooFramroze
Courtly love
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
