History
Has the National Trust forgotten its purpose?
Constance Watson speaks to Anna Price about the National Trust’s misplaced priorities
Rambling through Chesham and Amersham
Each constituency has a unique and fascinating history
Taking on New Labour
20 years since Dr Richard Taylor won in the Wyre Forest
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
Trophy cabinets
Thomas Woodham-Smith meets the go-to man for classic English furniture
A contemptible little army?
How successfully did Britain’s armed forces adapt to the reality of the First World War?
Burning heritage
Are the Houses of Parliament set for the flames? Brice Stratford discusses with David Scullion
Have queens enjoyed the same authority as kings?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role of the queen in British and European history
Scapegoat of a paranoid era
Anne Sebba’s book on Ethel Rosenberg is a towering memorial
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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 Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Keep your kids off social media
Childhood is too precious to be turned into content
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures