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
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
