British History
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
