British History
London’s monocultural history
It is nonsense to claim that London was “built by immigrants”
A forgotten British great: Smelfungus
Now languishing in undeserved obscurity, Tobias Smollett should be remembered
The enduring Commonwealth
The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Commonwealth club
The feud that made the modern age
A new book breathes new life into historical fiction
What are your links to slavery?
Some of those connected with the slave trade by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have only the most tenuous of associations
The North Riding, rediscovered
A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes
England reclaimed
How we became a nation of drainage engineers
When young men headed East
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves
Traditions of the future
Time to recover Britain’s Judeo-Christian constitutional heritage
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
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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
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked