John Charmley
A fearless, serious historian
A tribute to John Charmley, bold revisionist biographer of Chamberlain and Churchill
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again