We have bred a generation so incurious, and so uninterested in the philosophical foundations of society, that they no longer ask: ‘Why?’ ...
Alfred the Great was an Anglo-Saxon. He wasn’t an ancient Briton. King Arthur was an ancient Briton. William the Conqueror was a Norseman. He was essentially a Dane. Even our greatest aristocrats are, ...
Ninety years after Liberal leader Archibald Sinclair made the case that military weakness invited aggression, a new ...
Mer, near Omaha Beach, the inflatable represented what many Brits would see as a direct reversal of Operation Overlord, which began on D-Day. The prospect of around 60 illegal migrants landing on ...
We should teach them how to think, not what to think!’ That's not the whole story.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has today announced that the United States has invited Vladimir Putin to an upcoming G20 summit in Miami, giving the Russian leader ‘an opportunity to engage not just ...
Andy Burnham told Donald Trump this week that we need to ‘rein in AI’, and given who he is getting advice from it’s no surprise. The Turing Institute, a government research institute which has focused ...
Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports, this splendid book recreates cricket’s watershed year, 1864. At the time, Kit Harris explains, ...
Students of Cambridge University’s gradual self-destruction will recall our disclosure last month that it has appointed as assistant professor a woman ...
The elegant, charismatic and narcissistic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wasn’t the average adventurer that Alaska attracted in 1912. When he ...
As a wing of the military, the Ordnance Survey had extraordinary powers. The Surveyors’ Act of 1841 allowed it to trudge, clamber, squelch, measure and interrogate wherever necessary. The first ...
The first aeroplane flight in Britain was made in 1909 by John Moore-Brabazon, holder of the first British pilot’s ...
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