Have we been here before? asks ROGER HERMISTON. For 2020, read 1940… Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Calling all cliches: Making Britain great again
How long have we been promising ourselves that we can make Britain great again? Continue reading
‘A poor choice of costume’
Prince Harry, Holocaust Memorial Day and Labour antisemitism – ALWYN TURNER remembers January 2005. Continue reading
The Prophetess of Exeter
Joanna Southcott died in 1814, and still the world hasn’t ended, notes ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
The donkey’s not for stalking
ALWYN TURNER on Anthony Meyer’s 1989 leadership challenge to Margaret Thatcher. Continue reading
PMX bandits
How will Theresa May shape up as an ex-prime minister, wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Tom Paine’s bones
ALWYN TURNER tells an odd tale of radicalism and grave-robbing from 1819. Continue reading
‘Let them drink curry’
The Great Famine? The Corn Laws? If only people had listened to the Duke of Norfolk. Continue reading
‘Petty differences’: Not a government of national unity
ALWYN TURNER remembers the appeals for the country to come together in 1974. Continue reading
‘Sturdy and true’: A government of national unity
Do we have a new Churchill and Attlee in our midst, wonders ROGER HERMISTON. Continue reading
‘Where there is discord’: The 1979 election
ALWYN TURNER on the arrival of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. Continue reading
Our Singapore
SIMON MATTHEWS on the Empire Trilogy of JG Farrell, and what it tells us about Brexit. Continue reading
