Political Biography
Lost in the eye of the hurricane
Crisis is the pinwheel of modern democratic politics
The blue blazer
Liz Truss’s story is a salutary tale
Can political biographies ever be any good?
Political memoirs can be essential, eye-popping reading if the subject is handled in the right way
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
