Election 2019
What will Trump’s America learn from Boris?
The Conservative victory matters because of the differences between Trump and Johnson, not the similarities
The myth of the red wall
The red wall was a patronising generalisation about a huge swathe of the country
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
The problem with the exit poll
Don’t go to bed early, says Graham Stewart
Go postal
How parties peek at postal votes before polling day
Wrexham Roulette
Corbyn and the entire party will have to be on best behaviour for Labour to win here
The battle for Chester
Lewis Baston on a borderland election battle
Wobbly Thursday
There are few worse times to conclude what the result will be than right now
Red sky at night, Corbyn’s delight?
How weather will affect the election result
Whither the Lib Dems?
The fate that awaits the Liberal Democrats after such an awful election
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
