British History
How faith built the best of our nation
Every aspect of English national life owes something to Christianity
Two views of the end of empire
An expert and an exile provide contrasting perspectives on Britain’s mistakes
On the march with the skeleton army
Boisterous boozers rose up against the temperance tyrants of the Sally Army
The making of Anglican Ulster
A new book makes a worthy start in exploring a strangely neglected subject
America’s great foundation myths
Reflections on the 250th anniversary of the first shots of the American War of Independence
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
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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
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
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.
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel