British History
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
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Most Read
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
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities