History
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
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
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips