Have we lost our minds?
Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era
The Man who saved the firm
The Duke of Edinburgh’s genius was to ensure that the more the Royal family changed, the more it appeared to remain the same
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
Boris’s Corona Catastrophe
An indolent, blustering prime minister surrounded by supine, vacuous incompetents
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
Free speech in an uncivil society
A climate of intolerance is threatening the pursuit of reason.
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
