Neville Chamberlain
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Why Appeasement seemed sensible
Hindsight is no guide to what most influenced British policymakers in the 1930s
A sunny depiction of dark times
Unlike so many, Heffer likes his fellow countrymen and countrywomen
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured