EJ Hobsbawm
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
