EJ Hobsbawm
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
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Time to scrap the smoking ban
Intolerance, not smoking, is what should be considered irrational and unpleasant
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons