JH Plumb
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false