British History
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
Scotched salmon
Patrick Galbraith on wild food and ethical blindspots
Britain’s little Hitlers
Richard Griffiths reviews Failed Führers, by Graham Macklin
Too much of a maverick
Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
The man who invented Gaslighting
Patrick Hamilton, the writer who inadvertently coined the term, had his own victims
Is Boris Johnson the wrong man?
And do we still have a national story? With Simon Heffer and Jeremy Black
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
