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French Connections
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart France’s historical inheritance
Impeachment Follies: The case against conviction
Paul du Quenoy argues that Democrats are unlikely to achieve their dream of removing their most dangerous rival from contention in 2024
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?
What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department
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
Most Read
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
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)