Nick Robinson
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
