Colonial expansion and industrial development
Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?
Performance politics (with Lola Salem)
On the multi-pronged campaign against reality
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Every British politics podcast
Big brains and banter
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Disinformation and the nation (w/ Fred Skulthorp)
Journalists have to do better to improve trust
Has Ukraine changed modern warfare?
A historical perspective
Cameron’s unhappy heirs
A march of misadventures
Britain’s grooming shame
When will there be consequences?
The Blair phenomenon
New Labour and a new Britain — but for the better?
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
