National Archives
British politics needs more history
Despite unprecedented resources, we are failing to learn from the past
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was