Charlemagne
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
