British History

Thatcher in Scotland

Margaret Thatcher attracted loathing and respect

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On Conservative hauntology

A ghost haunted the Conservative Party Conference — the ghost of what might have been

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Why Jenrick is right to judge the judges

Blairite constitutional vandalism is not a sacred tradition

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Lessons from King Athelstan

We should do more to remember a titan of English history

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Historic failure

If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist

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The railway children’s later life

A new production of The Railway Children is a grand British day out

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Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history

History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues

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Christianity is a culture

Christianity is not just a private faith, nor a set of traditions, but a way of individual and collective life

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History and the national interest

Those who do not learn from the past are liable to misunderstand Britain’s place in the world

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Britain’s identity crisis goes beyond immigration

Most of us, not just minorities, have lost our sense of being meaningfully British

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