National Histories
Why does the BBC need to lie about Britain’s history?
Indian nationalist fantasies about the Bengal famine can’t be the point of the licence fee
The rights of the child?
A Scottish bill is importing radical progressive politics in the name of protecting children
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Debunking degrowth
Want to be poorer and less free? Do we have an ideology for you
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
Radical extremes of academic inadequacy
There is something amiss in the academic study of extremism
“Are you now or have you ever been a gender critical feminist?”
Must we all be aligned with the values of Stonewall?
More drama, less news
An element of fiction can bring insights and humanity that pure non-fiction lacks