British History
Steam powering progress
How Victorian railways were the engine of modern technologies
Crowning moment
The Coronation is more than a magnificent piece of theatre
We can’t Retvrn to tradition
Sorry, trads and tradwives, modvrnity is here to stay
The Revolution’s shadow
How did conflict affect British politics?
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
A race to the bottom
“Decolonisation” ideology distorts and condescends
Colonial expansion and industrial development
Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets