British History
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The aristocratic third worldism of the British Museum
“Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans” rebukes American imperialism with traditional monarchy and noblesse oblige
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected