British History
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Most Read
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
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency