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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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience