Podcast
Blood on the tracks — rail transport between the wars
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
The making of an energy horror story (w/ James McSweeney)
Grab some popcorn and prepare to scream
The uncivil service (w/ Radomir Tylecote)
Is Britain becoming a synthetic democracy?
Writing the world to rights (w/ Jo Bartosch)
Making a difference from your desk
Across the universe
How railways conquered the world
Hope for helots? (w/ Tom Jones)
It is no surprise that the young are disaffected
Tracks across America
Rail and the development of the USA
Decline and crawl (w/ Ed West)
Tories, NIMBYs and Telegraph Blogs
At full steam
The birth of British railways
London calling
The decline of our capital
Most Read
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
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism