History
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
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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
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”