British History
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
