September 16, 2020

Why everyone is stupid except me Twitter users love the Dunning-Kruger effect because it suggests your opponent is an idiot

Tom Chivers

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

08.09

The greatest stories never told Introducing ‘Alt Histories’ – a series in which we explore what we can learn from what didn't happen

Peter Franklin

03.09

A portrait of power, warts and all A series of novels set in Cromwell's England shows that taking control is easy enough — but keeping it is much harder

James Kirkup

02.09

The last gasps of a European empire An unfinished masterpiece set in imperial Vienna offers our MPs historical parallels — but no easy answers

Matthew Sweet

25.08

Why Britain needs a million new farmers The pandemic has boosted once-fringe ideas about ditching city life to go back to the land

Aris Roussinos

13.08

Ramsgate’s difficult relationship with Europe The history of this corner of England has always been coloured by its proximity to the continent

Aris Roussinos

03.08

How universities shut out conservative academics A new report shows the extent of intolerance towards unorthodox thinkers in British academia

Matthew Goodwin

23.07

What if Leave and Remain switched sides? Many Brexit voters would feel more at home in the EU than in the new Global Britain

Ed West

08.07

Are young people turning to the Right? Political correctness could explain why the Jordan Peterson generation is quite so conservative

Eric Kaufmann

02.07

Britain needs to build a better brand Divorced from the EU, the UK is going to have to put some effort into selling itself

Mary Dejevsky

11.06

When will we stop fetishising youth? Jonathan Ross's reverse-ferret on trans issues is indicative of an alarming modern trend

Paul Embery