British History
A lie amid history
Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Phantom on the Piccadilly Line
See it, say it, haunted
Coarseness and viciousness
James Gillray could be cruel but was a fine propagandist
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Remember, remember
The strange afterlife of Bonfire Night
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
The state we’re in
Britain isn’t working any more
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
