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
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)