Canals
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
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We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation