History
The Brazilian solution
How Plano Real defeated inflation
Plastic? Fantastic!
The surprising virtues of the most abhorred material
Monetarily woke
A new book by Stefan Eich debunks the political neutrality of money
Will the real historical Jesus please stand up?
You can’t escape Lewis’s trilemma
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
Gordon Brown — a study in failure
The ex-PM’s dangerous quest to salvage a legacy
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Bad medicine
Has America’s “racial reckoning” come for the Wellcome Collection?
Skeleton in the cupboard
Disappearing corpses, theme-park Venice and a post-Brexit smuggling operation
The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth
A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa
Most Read
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
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism