Lewis Namier
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
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Selling desirability
It is truthful to sell art as a luxury accessory
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment