History
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
The beginning of the end of the end of history
How the nineties helped to build the modern world
Was Shakespeare really a black woman?
Too many intellectuals still cannot let Shakespeare be Shakespeare
Erich von Däniken and the modern paranoid style
His archeological esoterica fuelled the development of modern conspiracy theory
A non-fictional feast!
The best of military history from 2025
Why men still mourn SS Edmund Fitzgerald
It is an unproblematic tale of heroism and tragedy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
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
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting