History
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
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
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
