Herbert Butterfield
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
