Black’s History Week
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
Red alert?
Apocalyptic intimations in the mid-1900s
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
