British History
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The aristocratic third worldism of the British Museum
“Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans” rebukes American imperialism with traditional monarchy and noblesse oblige
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
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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
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable