British History
Born on the Fourth of July
Us Brits need to come to an honest reckoning over what happened in Afghanistan
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
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
