October 9, 2020

The traffic wars speeding your way Screaming matches, Facebook flamewars, civil disobedience — the fight for the streets is getting ugly

Peter Franklin

06.10

The Tory problem with poshness The old symbols of privilege still have the power to do the Conservatives real harm

Peter Franklin

22.09

Of course Trump can win A repeat of 2016 would reveal the centre-Left as having no response to populism

Matthew Goodwin

16.09

Why everyone is stupid except me Twitter users love the Dunning-Kruger effect because it suggests your opponent is an idiot

Tom Chivers

10.09

Has Boris forgotten our fishing history? The sea is woven deep into the culture of the British Isles. Politicians ignore it at their peril

Mary Harrington

08.09

The greatest stories never told Introducing ‘Alt Histories’ – a series in which we explore what we can learn from what didn't happen

Peter Franklin

03.09

A portrait of power, warts and all A series of novels set in Cromwell's England shows that taking control is easy enough — but keeping it is much harder

James Kirkup

02.09

The last gasps of a European empire An unfinished masterpiece set in imperial Vienna offers our MPs historical parallels — but no easy answers

Matthew Sweet

25.08

Why Britain needs a million new farmers The pandemic has boosted once-fringe ideas about ditching city life to go back to the land

Aris Roussinos

13.08

Ramsgate’s difficult relationship with Europe The history of this corner of England has always been coloured by its proximity to the continent

Aris Roussinos

03.08

How universities shut out conservative academics A new report shows the extent of intolerance towards unorthodox thinkers in British academia

Matthew Goodwin

23.07

What if Leave and Remain switched sides? Many Brexit voters would feel more at home in the EU than in the new Global Britain

Ed West