History
A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
Return of the 60s neurosis
Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today
July: Letters to the Editor
The Reformation has left us with a precious legacy
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism
A real world of consciousness
Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
