History
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
