Nobel Noblemen
Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice
What is a conservative?
Brexit proved there is a huge audience for a culturally conservative party, but who will fill it?
Arsonists in the Attic
The liberals betrayed the very civilisation they were charged to defend
Wokeism is Latter Day Puritanism
Today’s political conflicts replay past battles between Britain’s libertarian and puritan traditions, argues historian Nigel Jones
FDR is no hero – he shouldn’t be Boris’s role model
Is Boris’s ‘Rooseveltian’ revival really what the country needs?
Into the lion’s mouth
Nigel Jones laments the rise of the British snitch
The man who invented Gaslighting
Patrick Hamilton, the writer who inadvertently coined the term, had his own victims
Boris’s failures over COVID and Black Lives Matter
What is needed but is sorely lacking is the smack of firm government, says Nigel Jones
The dangerous lessons from Spain
Leading historian Nigel Jones argues the UK is now dangerously fractured along political lines
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society