Rail Enthusiasts
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Tracks across America
Rail and the development of the USA
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
