History
The fascinating objects of fascism
Roger Moorhouse shows it’s possible to treat modern history properly and in context
Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?
How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
Back to school…or is remote learning enough for now?
And is there a point to counter-factual history?
Part Six: Home Education? Help!
Looking to the past – and the future
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
