British History
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
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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
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust