History
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families