Britain
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
The dangerous lessons from Spain
Leading historian Nigel Jones argues the UK is now dangerously fractured along political lines
Take back control of the Moon
It’s time for Britain to get back into the space race
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
The Coronavirus Cover-Up
How the West’s fear of appearing racist obscures the blunders at the beginning of this outbreak
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
