Croesus
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord