History
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
We didn’t want to be poor no more
Growing up in the Eighties was a story of aspiration — and anxiety
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
How to get history wrong: a case study
Jeremy Black explains the strange case of Edward Lucas
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
History man
Reflecting on a life in a British university
Eternal resurrection
James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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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
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs