British History
Colonial expansion and industrial development
Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Have we lost our minds?
Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era
Building a new world on the ruins of the old
After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
The Bedfords: a marriage of minds
Keir Davidson draws on abundant family archives to paint extensive biographies of artistic and scientific patronage
Bring back the traitors
To abandon the crime of treason is to move towards a post-national future
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
