30 Aug 2021 - 1:00am

Afghanistan always defeats the West A grasp of history might have prevented this disastrous war

William Dalrymple

27.08

Will Europe survive another migrant crisis? The EU is woefully unprepared for an influx of Afghans

Douglas Murray

20.08

Why Britain loves camping Like medieval pilgrimages, the point is to suffer

Ed West

19.07

Are we free on Freedom Day? Liberalism was always going to be useless in a pandemic

Ed West

12.07

Can Britain survive the woke wave? Conflicts over national identity have the potential to tear the fabric of civil society

Matthew Goodwin

25.06

The emptiness of ‘British values’ It's impossible to forge a national identity without a common history

Ed West

22.06

Britain’s most offensive comedian Roy Chubby Brown understood the UK's class system far better than any politician

Alwyn Turner

05.05

What if Napoleon had conquered Britain? We avoided the extreme, continental ideologies of the 20th century

Jeremy Black

04.05

What England owes the Irish Relations between the two nations were not always a nightmare

Tom Holland

12.04

Why they’ll never understand Brexit Too many experts are unable to escape their own political prejudices

James Kirkup

06.04

Lockdown loneliness is here to stay Even with the lifting of restrictions, this age of isolation will never end

Jennie Bristow

05.04

Prime Ministers don’t need to be virtuous The office's 300-year history proves that the best leaders are often lazy charlatans

Dominic Sandbrook