British History
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
