Politics
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
Libertarians and progressives are too irresponsible for freedom
Authoritarianism is the perverse outcome of irresponsible forms of libertarianism and progressivism
An economic warning to the curious
There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes
The perils of false victimhood
The Critic and Policy Exchange think right-wing academics are being censored. They’re wrong
Ongoing lessons from the Battle of Warsaw
After the Miracle at the Vistula, a Miracle at the Oder?
The grandeur and instability of Spain
The rise and fall of the Spanish Empire
A-level results: an A* in confusion
A-level debacle epitomises the government’s farcical handling of schools throughout the pandemic
Biden’s VP pick: safe choice or wise move?
What will Kamala Harris bring to the U.S. presidential elections?
SHEAR Madness
Taking an Old Hickory switch to the dying academic historical profession
I’m a political orphan
Being an old-style radical is not winning me many friends – but I’m staying put
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
