Boris Johnson's Challenge

by Carl R. Trueman

Can Boris Johnson achieve Brexit? And can he do so without destroying his own party as a political force? Continue Reading »

25 Jul 2019

The Boris Act

by Peter Hitchens

Why does Boris Johnson need a stage name? Continue Reading »

23 Jul 2019

Why I Became Muslim

by Jacob Williams

Growing up in twenty-first-century Britain, I was often struck by a feeling of anomie. Around the time I was born, John Major tried to evoke a vanished past by conjuring “long shadows on county grounds” and “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.” As for my . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Britain's Identity Crisis

by John William Sullivan

An enormous political realignment is afoot, sidelining Britain’s cosmopolitan and liberal elite Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2019

Specter of the Beatitudes

by Eve Tushnet

Workers’ Tales:  Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain edited by michael rosen princeton, 328 pages, $19.95 When I was a girl, I had a picture book, The Day the Fairies Went on Strike. This 1981 confection by Linda Briskin and Maureen FitzGerald, with . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

Bleeding for Britain

by Peter Hitchens

In Britain it is still rather enjoyable to donate a pint of blood. Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2017

An Empty Parliament

by Peter Hitchens

The architecture of the Palace of Westminster, which once seemed to dignify the business of the place, has been diminished by the Parliament inside it.  Continue Reading »

3 Oct 2017

Remembering “The Few”

by George Weigel

Seventy-five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister’s country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge: a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Sep 2015

Aristocrats at Bay

by Alan Jacobs

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracyby David CannadineYale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95 As might be expected of a book whose title echoes Gibbon’s magnum opus, David Cannadine’s history of the British aristocracy since 1875 is long, exhaustive, wide-ranging, and anecdotally . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Rational Animal

by M. D. Aeschliman

The Culture We Deserve by jacques barzun university press of new england, 185 pages, $19.95 “I have got materials toward a treatise,” Jonathan Swift wrote to Alexander Pope in September 1725, “proving the falsity of that definition of animal rationale, and to show it would be only rationis . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1991