History
The fear of the fever: how we are now living the authentic Victorian experience
Covid-19 is bringing us closer to the Victorians more than any recreation of an 1830s London townhouse ever could
Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On
Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort
Does the Mediterranean have a common culture?
And did its modern tourist industry develop naturally? Graham Stewart discusses with Professor Jeremy Black
Take Your Picton
Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue
Nobel Noblemen
Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice
Still fit to print?
The rise and fall of the British newspaper
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled
Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…
Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration
How I discovered History
Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
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
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain