Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the relationship between British government policy and imperial expansion in the eighteenth century and whether this helped spur the Industrial Revolution.
Challenge the consensus. Access rigorous analysis.
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Why is there so little agreement?
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about Queen Elizabeth II’s place in British history
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
