Marathon
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Marathon maniac
Nick Cohen ran and ran and did himself no good in the process
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Why Devon is saying no to a data centre
It would transform the local environment, and the local economy, for the worse
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?