Franklin D. Roosevelt
Keep buggering on
We could do worse than adopt the twin maxims of the western world’s two wartime leaders
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
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
