The Victorians
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
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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
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants