History
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
Big Brother versus liberty
Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
