14 Sep 2020 - 1:08am

The plot against Mercia Birmingham was a boom city after the war and might have come to rival London. So why did planners deliberately sabotage its economy?

John Myers

14.09

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

11.09

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response Blunt, panicky lockdowns across the continent are doing far more damage than the pandemic itself

Ian Birrell

11.09

Christianity was the original cancel culture For 2,000 years people in power have been trying to no-platform those they consider a threat to hearts and minds

Catherine Nixey

11.09

Hollywood’s hapless diversity bid Driven by Darwinian levels of competition, it's the last place to enact an egalitarian experiment

Douglas Murray

11.09

What we meritocracy critics get wrong Selection by merit is not the problem — the overwhelming focus on academic intelligence is

David Goodhart

10.09

Stop crying foul over fascism The Left justifies extreme and violent action by framing Trump as an existential threat to America

Michael Tracey

10.09

Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece Sid Meier's creation invites us to think about how the world works — and warns it could be a lot worse

Sam Leith

10.09

Imagine a world without the USA… France and Britain have reached a stalemate in North America and no colonial rebellion ensues

James Kirkup

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

09.09

Why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing Almost everything that is wrong with the world is caused by coordination problems

Tom Chivers

09.09

Tabloid fake law is not the only fake law The Secret Barrister’s new book on misinformation seems to betray a loss of impartiality

Adam King