Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
