Psychological cures to social ills?
Oliver Wiseman speaks to Jesse Singal about how bad ideas spread so easily and why the psychological cures to our social ills should be taken with a spoonful of salt
How exceptional is Britain’s monarchy?
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black discuss British and European conceptions of monarchy throughout history
Modernising the Royal Family
David Starkey talks to Graham Stewart about the crown’s delicate balance between reform, revolution, and sustaining a useful role
Jane Austen’s social and political world
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited
Getting the barnacles off
Simon Hoare and David Hoey debate the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol
The role of prime minister from Gladstone to Johnson
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart on how the role of the Prime Minister has changed in the past 200 years
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
Has China initiated a Cold War against Britain and the United States?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith gives his assessment to Graham Stewart
Gaming Holyrood
Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
