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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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power