Robert peel

Boris’s leaked tax plans suggest a truly radical Toryism

11 February 2020 3:43 am

‘You want the dowry, but you don’t like the bride’ is how Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol summed up his…

Britain after Brexit: it’s time to decide on our place in the world

11 January 2020 9:00 am

‘Global Britain’: a phrase that provokes mockery and even indignation. As an alternative to EU membership many consider it impossible…

Brave, drunken, violent and law-abiding

13 December 2014 9:00 am

Here is a stupendous achievement: a narrative history of England which is both thorough and arresting. Very few writers could…