Samuel Pepys
Must we burn Samuel Pepys?
What the Pepys censors fail to grasp about the Restoration era
Wrangling over the writings of a rogue
Are we right to be amused by the diary of a sexual predator?
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters