Building a new world on the ruins of the old
After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?
King Charles’s ruthless revenge
Whilst the traitors are swiftly rounded up and dispatched, a handful remain at large
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties