Artillery Row
Today in making Matt Hancock look good
Meanwhile in the Caino Chief of Staff timeline …
Post-Colonial
When will we get serious about cyberwarfare?
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Napoleon’s shifting reputation
Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart about Napoleon’s reputation
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
Letter from Budapest
Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés
No No Nadhim
With a Johnson lockdown easing, terms & conditions apply
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
