Entering the golden age of canals
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart guide the boat of their new series on waterways into the 1700s, and discuss the politics and economics of the development of the British canal network.
Challenge the consensus. Access rigorous analysis.
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
