Transport
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Sadiq Khan is blind to unromantic disadvantages
London travel schemes are excluding the disabled and pro-diversity officials do not seem to care
Advance, legionaries
The Romans and the development of British roads
Karens and cohesion (w/ Ellen Pasternack)
Society depends on conscientiousness and taboo
See it, say it, sorted
The slogan is not only vulgar, but an implicit lie
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories