History
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Most Read
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
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance