History
Gimme shelter
The case for reopening the asylums
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
OK Doomer
Why Spengler still matters
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
Canada’s grave errors
Why does a country once regarded as a model of moderation and sanity now view itself as a seething den of blood-soaked bigotry and white supremacy?
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
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A race to the bottom
“Decolonisation” ideology distorts and condescends
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?