History
Zooming Windows
The George Formby Society attempts a ukulele world record, online
Conspiracies: theory and practice
Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events
The EU is no friend of ours
The European Union’s increasingly open hostility towards Britain has deep historical roots, says Nigel Jones
The EU is no haven for political naysayers
Is it right that Britain should be forced to extradite the political agitators of other EU states?
The sparkling revolution
How the way we manufactured glass changed the world of alcohol
Renato and Me
David Smith recalls his association with Renato Curcio, the former leader of Italy’s ultra-left terrorist group the Red Brigades
Which political diaries are worth taking seriously?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart the craft and value of the political diarist
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
We need to talk about Holocaust issues, but also remember righteous heroes
Marking the European Day of the Righteous, the Polish Ambassador to the UK says that public debate on the Holocaust must remember the praiseworthy acts of righteous people
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
