Hugh Trevor-Roper
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic