British History
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
Winston Churchill was not Tony Blair
The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man
Calling bullshit on “The Marbles”
A new documentary about the Elgin Marbles offers cinematic skill and historical bias
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
Lessons for restoration from the Wiltshire wilderness
We must reacquiant ourselves with the spirit of English history
Thatcher in Scotland
Margaret Thatcher attracted loathing and respect
On Conservative hauntology
A ghost haunted the Conservative Party Conference — the ghost of what might have been
Why Jenrick is right to judge the judges
Blairite constitutional vandalism is not a sacred tradition
Lessons from King Athelstan
We should do more to remember a titan of English history
Historic failure
If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist
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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
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement