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 Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised