Historians
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
Against history snobs
Al Murray proves himself to be more than a popular historian
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
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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 tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands