History
When in doubt, do nothing
Attempting to stifle scandals only makes them more lethal, says Nigel Jones
A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Hurst Castle could have been saved
Following the collapse of the sixteenth-century sea fort, Brice Stratford says that the disaster was completely avoidable
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
What could Harry and Meghan learn from history?
Have the Duke and Duchess of Sussex traded short-term PR advantage for the sake of their future reputations?
BBC iPlayer’s liberal conspiracy theory
Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television
Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’
Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?
What kind of government rules by fear?
The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself
Why the narrative on Britain’s role in the slave trade is misleading
Britain’s bleak record with the slave trade makes a horrible story, but it is one not helped by getting it wrong
Perspectives on Churchill
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Winston Churchill’s career up to 1940
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
