History
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
