History
If I had a hammer
Do we just need better iconoclasts?
The Scullabogue martyrs
A S H Smyth remembers his Quaker ancestors killed June 5, during the Irish rebellion of 1798
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
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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
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then