History
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
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma