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
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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
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
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