Black History
Gaslit history
It is hardly a surprise that most Britons have not heard of Quintus Lollius Urbicus
I wanna be black
The perils of self-identification
Failing Black history
Attempts to “decolonise” school history ignore academic rigour in favour of mere tokenism
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre