Barry Turner
Barry Turner has written extensively on military history. His books include, Countdown to Victory, Karl Doenitz and The Lat Days of the Third Reich, Suez 1956, The Berlin Airlift 1948 and, most recently, Waiting for War, Britain 1939-1940.
Bohemia, SW3
Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane
Unmasking of a libertine lord
With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
