Slavery
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Nemesis comes to Charlottesville
As Americans gleefully melt down statues of Confederate leaders, they may soon discover that iconoclasm is no road to civic peace
Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
What are your links to slavery?
Some of those connected with the slave trade by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have only the most tenuous of associations
How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
