Thermopylae
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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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom