The Revolution’s shadow
How did conflict affect British politics?
Not going to be ignored (w/ Victoria Smith)
On the demonisation of middle-aged women
Fielding Sterne questions
The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
Mission accomplished? (with Ben Sixsmith and Sebastian Milbank)
Assessing the Iraq War and its ongoing effects
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
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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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off