The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
The EU Godfather’s Wall Street roots
Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
We have been here before
A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile
Expelliarmus!
Harry Potter is cancelled, Sainsbury’s cancel their shoppers, Taxpayers fund Stonewall, and packing the (UK) Supreme Court
A New Civil War? Not Bloody Likely
If the American left has any real hope of prevailing over Trump, it may well depend on the professionalism of uniformed men in arms
The Trump show will go on
Whatever happens in the election, the groups of Americans brought together by the president will continue to revere him
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
The offshoring of British social policy
Perhaps it is time we introduced bodies bankrolled by the UK taxpayer which support a commitment to democracy
Beating the rap
Julie Bindel shows how abused women are being let down by domestic violence perpetrator programmes
Marxist Magic Realism
How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness
Unmasking of a libertine lord
With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history