Elizabeth I
My Italian Stallion
The winning jockey receives a splendid silver cup and a very Sud-Tirol basket of apples
Mapping a nation
The popularity of Saxton’s maps reflected the desire for consistency and precision
Courtly love
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
