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The ‘Lovely Month of May’: France’s Ceremonies Become Political Battlegrounds

Hélène de Lauzun May 11, 2026

Across France, official commemorations are descending into increasingly hysterical ideological clashes over history, identity, and national memory.

The Slow Death of the National Trust

Paul Birch April 7, 2026

Another beloved British institution has succumbed to the cult of self-loathing.

Haaland Makes History off the Pitch With Record-Breaking Saga Donation

TEC News March 24, 2026

The Manchester City striker is also launching a local reading competition where winners get to attend a match with the Norwegian national football team.

The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon

Paul Birch February 15, 2026

There is a peculiar rule in modern Anglophone public life: Every people can have a past, except the one that built the country.

“There is no reason to make a law on memory; it is historians who should deal with what happened“—Historian Darío Madrid

Álvaro Peñas January 31, 2026

“Why should we demand a particular interpretation of history?”

A Leftist Puy du Fou? What a curious idea!

Hélène de Lauzun January 30, 2026

A leftist MP hopes to make French people dream by invoking repentance and dark chapters of the past.

Stop Queerwashing the Past

Lauren Smith October 8, 2025

Lord Nelson is the latest victim of activist historians who think every historical figure was gay or trans.

A Battle for History: When Right and Left Clash on Stage

Hélène de Lauzun August 18, 2025

The Left finds it intolerable when initiatives flourish that pay tribute to a glorious French history it refuses to acknowledge—and deeply detests.

Notre Dame Is Still Burning

Kristen Ziccarelli August 16, 2025

Though the French retain a fair bit of cultural conservatism, the acknowledgement of its roots in Christian anthropology and transcendent moral objectivity is largely absent.

Syrian migrants pass by sign saying Welcome in Germany at Munich train station

The Misuse of History

Sabine Beppler-Spahl July 26, 2025

How Germany’s Nazi past was politically weaponized to justify the 2015 refugee crisis

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The ‘Lovely Month of May’: France’s Ceremonies Become Political Battlegrounds

The Slow Death of the National Trust

Haaland Makes History off the Pitch With Record-Breaking Saga Donation

The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon

“There is no reason to make a law on memory; it is historians who should deal with what happened“—Historian Darío Madrid

A Leftist Puy du Fou? What a curious idea!

Stop Queerwashing the Past

A Battle for History: When Right and Left Clash on Stage

Notre Dame Is Still Burning

The Misuse of History

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