History
The miserable nomos of Starmerism
The arc of history is long but it bends towards Keir Starmer paying reparations
Lessons from King Alfred
The Edington Fellowship and the future of Britain
The prophet of combative Toryism
Historian David Starkey has, at 80, returned to guide a new generation of conservatives
Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
British politics needs more history
Despite unprecedented resources, we are failing to learn from the past
The Anglo-Dutch moment and its consequences
The English and the Dutch owe more to each other than they realise
Historiography made exciting
A new book from Richard Davenport-Hines makes history interesting and enjoyable
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
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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
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions