History
If the Labour Party didn’t already exist, who would invent it today?
If Keir Hardie were still around, he might ask himself why he bothered to create a political party that has now lost its purpose
Tom Holland: A Christian hero?
Marketing Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’ as a Christian product would be a kiss of death in the UK, but it works across the pond
Face facts: the Union is a dead duck
English nationalism is returning from its long slumber, ready to stand proud once again
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea
How the Genocide Convention hinders rather than helps victims
The stringent legal definition of genocide means that those who are targeted receive no support or justice
The enduring legacy of Michel Foucault
How the French philosopher founded today’s social justice movement
The history twisters
Nigel Jones warns that cinematic portrayals of historical events and figures could alter how we understand the past
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
Beware the bill of attainder
Christopher Silvester explains how English history could have an important part to play in Trump’s impeachment
The Trump days are over
History shows that Third Party tilts at the presidency don’t work
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
