Winston Churchill
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Winston Churchill was not Tony Blair
The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
Why are our PMs so bad?
Structural changes have harmed our politics — but we bear responsibility as well
Letters to the Editor
EDI enthusiasts, now embedded across university administration and departments, push beyond what the law requires
A fearless, serious historian
A tribute to John Charmley, bold revisionist biographer of Chamberlain and Churchill
Questions of life and death
BBC Radio 3’s soporific pap is the musical equivalent of assisted dying
Young Winston: seizing the day
The life before his and our finest hour
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Most Read
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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair