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…

All you’ll ever need to know about the history of England in one volume

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…