Tag: History

Total Results: 296


Who is really afraid? The very old? Or those seeking to control them?Credit: Carlos Costa/AFP via Getty
1 Nov 2021 - 12:03am

How Britain betrayed the elderly Each and every lockdown made their lives harder

Tessa Dunlop

Tuesday, 26 October

26.10

Why Wes Anderson loves the New Yorker The French Dispatch is an ode to the most fetishised magazine in the world

Dorian Lynskey

Friday, 27 August

27.08

Books have always been a weapon The index can be a surprisingly powerful tool

Sam Leith

Wednesday, 25 August

25.08

Why were we shocked by Afghanistan? The West has always been deluded about imperialism

Philip Hensher

Tuesday, 24 August

24.08

Young Russians love Stalin Everyone gets rehabilitated eventually

Daniel Kalder

Friday, 20 August

20.08

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

Ed West

Friday, 23 July

23.07

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 July

22.07

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

Ed West

Monday, 5 July

05.07

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

Joel Kotkin

Thursday, 24 June

24.06

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

Razib Khan

Friday, 28 May

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