Political History
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The dangers of devolution
It could lead to Britain being dismembered
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
A flawed blueprint for the Left
How far can the Left’s project succeed without its totemic leader?
Labour’s reluctant royalists
How Labour leaders from Wilson to Starmer fell for The Queen
Labour and monarchy
Not the relationship one might think
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
