British History
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
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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
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world