History
Britain is not an immigrant nation
This dumb ahistorical meme should be rejected
America’s great foundation myths
Reflections on the 250th anniversary of the first shots of the American War of Independence
A Lester man
Beware of the fusion of history and progressive activism
Do countries have ethics?
A state depends on its reputation, not just its wealth or power
Signals across the centuries
Mistakes are not just being ignored or denied but obscured from history
The hidden depths of Saudi soft power
The Saudis are taking culture more seriously than one might think
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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback