09/14/2020 - 1:04am

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

10.08

Don’t call Abingdon ordinary It has been a place of innovation ever since Æthelwold marked out his millstream

Eleanor Parker

23.06

Tolkien’s mythic plan for England The author wanted to write a great saga that would fill a gap in the nation's pre-history

Niall Gooch

28.05

Why we remember wars but forget plagues Art ignores pandemics because they're too boring, too horrific and too depressing

Sean Thomas

17.01

1917 pretends good soldiers don’t kill Sam Mendes' epic drips with contemporary sentiment and hackneyed stereotypes

John Lewis-Stempel

31.12

The turn of the year is no cause for optimism Why do we have such an unerring ability to choose the wrong future?

Peter Hitchens

11.11

Why we now know the pity of war Wilfred Owen's poetry reeks of truth and transformed our perception of war

Douglas Murray

08.11

Is Macron’s Euro crusade doomed to fail?

John Lichfield

07.11

The forgotten tragedies of the First World War We focus on the horrors of the Western Front, but millions died beyond the trenches

Peter Franklin

05.11

What scars do we bear from the First World War? How our modern political landscape was created by the "war to end war"

Robert Tombs

15.10

Why are woke liberals such enemies of the past? Instead of shaming our forebears, they should consider today's achievements

Peter Franklin

30.08

Does liberalism need global conflict in order to thrive?

Peter Franklin