French History
France since De Gaulle: a radical or conservative republic?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about French reforms and continuities from Georges Pompidou to Francois Hollande.
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
Will Biden be America’s Philippe Pétain?
So strong was the media’s desire to get rid of Trump, that they suspended all criticism of the cognitive decline of his successor
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
Vive Le Roi!
French Royalist groups wait for a king, but is their cause surely lost?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to