History
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
Gordon Brown — a study in failure
The ex-PM’s dangerous quest to salvage a legacy
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Bad medicine
Has America’s “racial reckoning” come for the Wellcome Collection?
Skeleton in the cupboard
Disappearing corpses, theme-park Venice and a post-Brexit smuggling operation
The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth
A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa
Country church monuments
The hidden treasures of English churches
Studio: The history of Britain in maps
Maps are aids and images, means and messages
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
Crisis? What crisis?
Maybe Old England isn’t done?
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
