Society
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about what made French politics and society distinctive in the decades before and after WWI
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
What made eighteenth century Britain such an innovative society?
And how did Britain become a trendsetting nation?
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
It’s not racist not to support Black Lives Matter
Ella Whelan explains why we all need to start talking, in person, again
Beware the shaming and guilt-tripping bingefest
Events in the US have led to a(nother) moment of reckoning for race relations spawning a similar gamut of emotions, some justified, other less so
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble