Tag: History

Total Results: 290


A woman lights the sacred flame in Ancient Olympus. Credit: AFP
July 23, 2021

The Olympics deserve better heroes Today's athletes have nothing on the ancients

Tom Holland

23.07

The emptiness of open letters With enough signatories, any demand will be fulfilled

Daniel Skipper Rasmussen

Thursday
22.07

22.07

What toffs and plebs share Class becomes meaningless when you are at its extremes

Ed West

Monday
05.07

05.07

How the Democrats fell for Mussolini America's elite has adopted the fascist dream of a corporate oligarchy

Joel Kotkin

Thursday
24.06

24.06

British imperialism didn’t destroy India Colonial rule brought relative peace to the subcontinent

Razib Khan

Friday
28.05

28.05

How the culture wars came for history Woke historians want to expose lies about the past — even when they don't exist

Dominic Sandbrook

Wednesday
12.05

12.05

Why the Tories need to rewrite history The Government is creating historical myths for nakedly political ends

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday
11.05

11.05

Where it all went wrong for Labour This mess has nothing on the screaming mobs and punch-ups of the Battle of Benn-Healey

Dominic Sandbrook

Wednesday
21.04

21.04

It’s the Queen or tyranny Progressive calls to abolish the monarchy forget the sinister alternative

Mary Harrington

21.04

Football and the decline of Englishness Heart, home, liberty, belonging — our national sport is like any other faith

Dominic Sandbrook

Friday
16.04

16.04

How Game of Thrones saved the North Ten years on, its fantasy world has turned Britain's national story upside down

Ed West

Tuesday
30.03

30.03

What if Reagan had been murdered? A successful assassination attempt could have precipitated an eternal Cold War

Dominic Sandbrook