History
Wise counsel
View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
What makes a hero?
Today, our heroes are demi-gods with superhuman powers, genius detectives and, painful though it is to admit, activists
The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders
For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?
The pardoner’s tale
Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring
George III – a much misunderstood monarch?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the sixty year reign of a man brought up to be the embodiment of a patriot king
Where have all the Orators gone?
Have mere words finally lost their power to move us?
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
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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
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real