Plenty of negative reflections have been written on the Bush years and a lot of that negativity is deserved. I want to offer some balance to this early writing of history, however. In these last days of George W Bush's...

The Biggest Spending Spree in American History From the Republican Study Committee As President Barack Obama approaches his 100th day in office, we have just witnessed the most debt-riddled first 100 days of an administration in American history. Obama has vaulted far past the debt numbers accumulated by his two predecessors in their first 100 days (in fact past their entire first years). In just ...

What can you tell about a President’s four year term from the first 100 days? Sod all really. The first 100 days of the Bush presidency told us nothing about how he would go on to be one of the most unpopular presidents in modern history or that war and terror would go on to be the defining issues of his term; hell, by the first 100 days his approval ratings suggested he was on course to be one

History is England.Law.Democracy.Votes for all men.Votes for women.One law for all.Innocent until proven guilty.The abolition of slavery.The end of child labour.Fighting for our freedom at home.Fighting for the freedom of others abroad.Human rights.Equal rights.History is England.England is history.ID Cards.Positive discrimination.Extraordinary rendition.DNA Database.Phone taps.CCTV.42 days detent...

One of the pitfalls of historians is adopting the Whig interpretation of history. Using that methodology they tend to take a current situation and write history backwards from there, thereby making the present the result of a historical determinism. Some Marxists use the same sort of theoretical thinking to highlight the seeming inevitability of the collapse of capitalism and the steady march to a...

Commentators are desperately trying to write something original about Obama's first 100 days in office but most are sticking to tried and tested formulae, writes Christopher Buckley

The next seven days will be crucial in deciding the course of politics in the United Kingdom for a generation.

This is a guest post by Edmund Standing, of “I Kid You Not“ You probably don’t know it, but we’re currently 12 days into the British National Party’s ‘White History Month‘. The British National Party has launched White History Month this November in response to calls from the British public following yet another officially-endorsed Black History Month

This news just fills me with a sad dread, A secondary school is withdrawing History from its timetable this year because it is "unpopular". St Mungo's in Falkirk also said it would not offer the subject to S3 Standard Grade pupils in 2009 because it had only one History teacher. In addition, the school said the subject was also being withdrawn as a Higher exam option until 2011. Why would any...

Irwin Stelzer has a good gripe about Obama's all round muzzliness in The Telegraph, but then can't resist showing that stuck-in-a-rut old right-wingers can rewrite history as well as the Lefties with this sentence: Obama now has to explain to his pacifist Democratic Left why he is sending tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan when his Nato allies, equally threatened – witnes...