EH Carr
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The free market delusion
The British economy won’t be saved by economic ideologues
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine