England
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
Revitalising the West
Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
Hymns and arias
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Walled in against the modern world
Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying
What do the English think of Englishness?
Graham Cunningham asks why Englishness has failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
The blind eye turned to Barrow
What’s not newsworthy about fascists, Islamists, grooming and death threats to journalists?
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
