US Civil War
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding