History
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?
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Obituaries — the unvarnished truth?
Why we should speak ill of the dead
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
