History
Why are our leaders so useless?
We look in vain for direction or hope from the leaders of tomorrow
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Was Parliament more rebellious in the eighteenth century?
The latest podcast in the Black’s History Week series: How does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member?
“I’ll tell you and you’ll listen”: the Neil Kinnock speech that lives on
The moment of pure political theatre that endures its legacy thirty-five years on
The very real danger of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theorists may be easy to dismiss, but history shows that such myths often end in bloodshed
No prefix required: how gay writers came of age
Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
Are empires always evil?
Daniel Johnson says Spanish imperialism left a legacy defying simplistic analysis
Evelyn Waugh was right: British politics went wrong in the 1920s
Why do Waugh’s political works remain either caricatured or ignored?
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
