JH Plumb
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
