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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define