History
Corrosive curation
Against the politicisation of museums
Underselling Ulster
Northern Ireland should be bolder in promoting itself
The museum tells it how it was
On the creation of national identity
Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Gimme shelter
The case for reopening the asylums
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
OK Doomer
Why Spengler still matters
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
