Historians
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
A fearless, serious historian
A tribute to John Charmley, bold revisionist biographer of Chamberlain and Churchill
The prophet of combative Toryism
Historian David Starkey has, at 80, returned to guide a new generation of conservatives
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
J G A Pocock: the Antipodean’s view of Europe
John Pocock defended Britain in its broadest sense
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
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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
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people