11/01/2019 - 12:00am

The Scopes Monkey Trial was about racism, not god Almost everything we think we know about the Dayton spectacle is wrong

Dennis Sewell

31.10

Why do Remainers revile homesickness? The yearning for home, along with the idea of nostalgia, is a legitimate political instinct that is now being used as an insult

Giles Fraser

31.10

Magna Carta proves the English aren’t exceptional The document we think of as the sacred text of British democracy was in fact about petty score-settling

Polly Mackenzie

31.10

What’s so unethical about my Jordan Peterson movie? Many people don't like seeing the human side of the polarising professor

Patricia Marcoccia

30.10

How the Left lost all purpose Labour is being driven ever further into the echo chamber, away from the people it is supposed to represent

James Bloodworth

30.10

What will survive this seismic election? As Britain prepares for its fifth nationwide ballot in four years, much is hanging in the balance

Matthew Goodwin

30.10

Oliver Cromwell: conservative revolutionary Why do we remain so remarkably ignorant about the turbulent period of the Civil Wars and its chief protagonist?

Paul Lay

29.10

Why won’t Jordan Peterson heed his own advice? You'd think that the king of homespun wisdom would realise his 'Lion Diet' — nothing but beef, salt and water — is faddish nonsense

Tom Chivers

29.10

It’s time to reverse the Beeching Axe Why does government favour cars, when trains are safer, better for the economy, and far more civilised?

Niall Gooch

29.10

Anne Boleyn: whore, witch or Cinderella? Most of the received wisdom about Henry VIII's tragic queen is based on misogynistic propaganda

Suzannah Lipscomb

28.10

The squalid myth of Dickensian London Despite the popular image of callous workhouses, life was vastly improved during the Industrial Revolution

Robert Tombs

28.10

Whoever controls the suburbs, controls America The next US President will be decided by the 60% of Americans who live in mid-density neighbourhoods

Oliver Wiseman