History
Country church monuments
The hidden treasures of English churches
Studio: The history of Britain in maps
Maps are aids and images, means and messages
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
Crisis? What crisis?
Maybe Old England isn’t done?
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Obituaries — the unvarnished truth?
Why we should speak ill of the dead
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
The SPD
Many of Germany’s present woes were anticipated by Schröder’s time in office
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
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 Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet