Salamis
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
A triumphant return
Jesus Christ Superstar, the London Palladium
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state