The England manager is the best since Sir Alf Ramsey but his flirtation with identity politics is a problem and...

Medical research seldom shoulders the burden of such hope and faith as it does today. Widely considered to be our...

The CRED report is a brave but necessary one in terms of education, a field in which too often policy changes are advanced based on gross generalisations made from anecdotal evidence and experience and unevidenced assertions about what is taught.

The High Court has ruled that the government’s policy of allowing pubs only to serve alcohol with ‘substantial meals’ may...

Review of Paul Embery, Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021 June 23rd 2016...

A great essay on Caliban and colonialism from the brilliant Harry Cluff.

The political commentator and activist Darren Grimes and the historian David Starkey are being investigated by the police for an...

A different take on diversity from the brilliant Lily Geidelberg.

It is more likely that an increased understanding of the Empire will result in wide-spread ambivalence rather than outright revulsion. Its significance should provoke a healthy kind of intellectual dissonance by diminishing the current critical trend of ethical and ideological absolutism. We should be impressed by its feats and repulsed by its failures, and feel fascinated by, but unsentimental about, the triumphs and transgressions of its leaders.

No matter how advanced we regard our society; no matter how ignorant we perceive our forebears; no matter how comfortably we enjoy our lives, one of the most devastatingly cliché human questions still haunts us, and becomes ever harder to answer: who are we?