English History
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
