Naval History
December-January Letters: Stereotyping the Afghans
Foreigners should not damn the Afghans with low expectations
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Bastards of the fleet
David Grann writes the definitive tale of the Wager’s descent into madness
Buccaneer of the Antarctic
The heroic age of polar exploration ended with Shackleton’s death
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers