British History
Coarseness and viciousness
James Gillray could be cruel but was a fine propagandist
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Remember, remember
The strange afterlife of Bonfire Night
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
The state we’re in
Britain isn’t working any more
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
A modern way of mourning
Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally
The grand old man and the ingénue queen
The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch
The Queen’s place in history
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about Queen Elizabeth II’s place in British history
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
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill