British History
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
A modern way of mourning
Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally
The grand old man and the ingénue queen
The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch
The Queen’s place in history
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about Queen Elizabeth II’s place in British history
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
