History
Exclusion and intolerance can be British values
The ancients knew that having a high-trust democracy could not be taken for granted
Our age of anxiety
Modern progressives are revolting against nature
Why Britain is being framed as the new enemy
Podcasters, amateur historians and America’s populist right have joined the assault
Caravaggio’s great extremes
Caravaggio’s art is a vivid rebuke to an artificial idealised reality
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
It’s not 1933
Nazi comparisons are misrepresenting the past and the present alike
Lessons from King Athelstan
We should do more to remember a titan of English history
Historic failure
If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
Truman’s choice
There were no good options for the U.S. in August 1945
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks