Artillery Row
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
The BBC’s worst mistake
A separate channel dedicated to British sport could have saved the BBC
Memoir of a troubled woman
Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation
Etone for your sins
“Vulva owners”, Eton’s woke head master, and the BBC’s hagiography of BLM
The never-ending inquiries into the murder of Pat Finucane
Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has announced further reviews to appease the incoming Biden administration
The freedom to achieve freedom
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed 99 years ago this week. As Brexit talks enter the last lap, Nigel Jones argues that the Treaty could offer a model to follow
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
A spoonful of Brexit helps the medicine go down
No one left to Boris to
What would be different if Starmer was in charge?
Keir Starmer’s weakness is a lack of healthy scepticism for the wisdom of experts
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
