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The French Revolution and its legacy
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart, about France’s eighteenth-century revolutionary ferment
Why feminists should oppose the death penalty
Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice
How the rise of digital technology facilitated lockdown
Philosopher Mark Sinclair warns against the slippery slope of technological thinking
History shows that violence is ‘as American as cherry pie’
Violence is intrinsic to America and we shouldn’t expect it to cease being so when Donald Trump leaves office
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
Heads should roll after the BBC’s coverage of the Capitol Hill riot
Under Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s news and current affairs output has let us down again and again
The MAGA mob
Was it worth it?
The lesser-known Orwell: are his novels deserving of reappraisal?
George Orwell has a gift for the unusual and the memorable that means that even his half-forgotten novels are well worth discovering once again
It is time to take back control of our airwaves
There is no reason why broadcasters should not be like newspapers: free to say what they like, within the law
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
