British History
Why we need our National Heritage Service
In defence of the other NHS
Was Shakespeare really a black woman?
Too many intellectuals still cannot let Shakespeare be Shakespeare
The rise and fall of assimilation
On last century’s chimera of a universal civilisation
Must we burn Samuel Pepys?
What the Pepys censors fail to grasp about the Restoration era
Cultural institutions are erasing Christianity
To obscure the role of Christianity in Britain’s heritage is to obscure Britain’s heritage
There is another side to the “Stakeknife” story
The security forces might have made mistakes but their work was still invaluable
David Olusoga is misrepresenting British history
His new series brushes over facts which might confuse its black-and-white narrative
In praise of plucky Brits
Remembering Robin Smith and an old valiant breed of British sportspeople
In defence of the Town and Country Planning Act
The essentially valuable function of the planning system has been subverted by its inheritors
Forty years of mistakes in Northern Ireland
Unionists were abandoned in 1985 and are being abandoned now
Most Read
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
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant