From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
In the second episode of their new series on canals, Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss travel, commerce and innovation on the rivers of Tudor and Stuart Britain
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
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
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
