No, says Guy de la Bédoyère, Hadrian's Wall is not a 'gay icon'. Its historical legacy is too significant, and the Emperor's sexuality too irrelevant, to be the latest subject of 'woke revisionism'.
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, has diagnosed the main cause of our current malaise: acceleration anxiety. No longer relating to eternal things, we are anxious only to reach the future as fast as possible.
It is the prerogative of every society to believe it is uniquely afflicted by existential threats, ruled by waves of corrupt incompetents and saddled with a feckless, spoiled younger generation of popinjays.
The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?
The fate of the rulers of Ancient Egypt and their utopian schemes holds lessons for our own unpopular elites and their luxury beliefs, says historian Guy de la Bédoyère.
Mohammed Mogouchkov, who killed one person in a knife attack at a school in France on Friday, was apparently looking for a history teacher. Had the teacher expressed views on the Middle East he didn't agree with?
Hot summers, long droughts, warm winters, violent storms, even a hurricane – the 1600s were no stranger to extreme weather. The solution proposed at the time was self-denial. Sound familiar?
Using the term 'geopolitics' conveys an air of world-weary cynicism that its users believe makes them look like they're carrying the weight of history on their shoulders. But it's an empty cliché, says J Sorel.
France is a nation divided by history, terrorism and a struggle for integration, writes Ed West in the Spectator. The ongoing ‘Intifada’ is a legacy of the brutal, violent end to France’s colonial empire.
The woke obsession with 'anti-racism' and 'facing up to' past involvement in slavery is really all about advancing a thinly-veiled revolutionary, anti-British agenda, says Cambridge historian Prof. Robert Tombs.
