Britishness
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
The matter of Britain
Britain must rediscover its stories and dreams
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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
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion