Imperialism
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Empire by way of Europe
A new book places the quest to keep Algeria French squarely at the centre of European integration
A tragedy of manners
Is the US endangering its status in Europe?
Against the hysterical consensus
The US has to confront its own global identity
The immoral case for restitution
Britain does not owe Greece the Parthenon sculptures
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Stop insisting the West is as bad as Russia
Critics of the democratic world are unwittingly spouting Kremlin propaganda
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
