British History
Britain must escape the clutches of cringe
We have nothing to lose but our Paddington toys
A Lester man
Beware of the fusion of history and progressive activism
Courtly love
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell
Reject rioting revisionism
Legitimate grievances do not justify illegitimate behaviour
The miserable nomos of Starmerism
The arc of history is long but it bends towards Keir Starmer paying reparations
Lessons from King Alfred
The Edington Fellowship and the future of Britain
The making of Margaret Thatcher
How the Iron Lady rose from obscurity to change Britain
The myth of an extractive empire
Oxfam’s attack on the British Raj is historically and economically confused
British politics needs more history
Despite unprecedented resources, we are failing to learn from the past
The ingratitude of academia
The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent should celebrate their historic donors, not castigate them
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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
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world