History
What did YOU do in the Great Culture War, Daddy?
The British public will not stay forever silent as their values and beliefs are attacked
Hail to the Chief
The expansion of executive power in America
Can we ever be on the right side of history?
History is the composite of our collective actions, looming over us ready to make a verdict
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
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
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions