Wartime Britain
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Murders for August
Locked rooms and dark churchyards
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Rumourmongering in times of crisis
Nigel Jones compares the power of rumours in Wartime Britain with the fake news afflictions of our Covid-stricken society
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
