AJP Taylor
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties