September 16, 2020
The English have always been drunkards There's nothing new in history — including our nation's partiality to a stiff drink
Ed West
15.09
Why are doctors leaving in droves? This historically stable, lucrative and prestigious profession is in critical condition
Louise Perry
15.09
How true crime romanticises murderers Des, the fascinating drama about Dennis Nilsen, finally gives his victims a voice
Tanya Gold
15.09
Enoch Powell, visionary As a new book notes, many of his most troubling predictions have indeed come to pass
Aris Roussinos
15.09
Did the French Revolution cause Nazism? If Louis XVI had hung onto his throne, Europe wouldn't have been overrun by tyranny
John Lewis-Stempel
14.09
Why the new inquisition came for David Hume Just as in the philosopher's day, the zealots of the 21st century cannot understand human complexity
Giles Fraser
14.09
Matt Hancock’s ‘messaging’ is no better than Trump’s Fearmongering slogans like 'don't kill your gran' are the opposite of good political leadership
Freddie Sayers
14.09
The plot against Mercia Birmingham was a boom city after the war and might have come to rival London. So why did planners deliberately sabotage its economy?
John Myers
14.09
What if the feminists had won? Eleanor Rathbone's proposal to pay women for housework and childcare was just too ahead of its time
Mary Harrington
11.09
Africa’s catastrophic Covid response Blunt, panicky lockdowns across the continent are doing far more damage than the pandemic itself
Ian Birrell
11.09
Christianity was the original cancel culture For 2,000 years people in power have been trying to no-platform those they consider a threat to hearts and minds
Catherine Nixey
11.09
Hollywood’s hapless diversity bid Driven by Darwinian levels of competition, it's the last place to enact an egalitarian experiment
Douglas Murray
