History
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
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
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
