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Executing the wills
The destruction of Britain’s probate records archive must be averted
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
