History
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
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
They, Claudius
It is folly to project modish contemporary norms backwards
Cufflinks for Christmas
It is much better to be overdressed than underdressed
Executing the wills
The destruction of Britain’s probate records archive must be averted
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine