Blue bloods and brownshirts
The intricate relationship between German aristocrats and Nazi Germany
Britain’s Nazi collaborators
If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe
Can GB News survive Andrew Neil’s departure?
Or will GB News turn into a right-wing echo chamber?
Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
“Reframe your trauma”
Rape survivors are not “bigots” for wanting female-only spaces
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
Paderewski & Stojowski: Violin Sonatas (CPO)
I would happily subscribe to an emergent series of forgotten Polish treasures if the quality remained this high
Castigating Britain
Could an editor not rescue Jonathan Haslam’s new book from triteness?
Stavropol, South Russia: In Search of Gorbachev’s Roots
The origins of a soviet leader revered as a visionary reformer in the west, but reviled as a weak American puppet in his native land
Beethoven/Schnittke: Violin concertos (BIS)
This fabulous interpretation of the Beethoven concerto is one of the records of the year
Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
Every sport is male sport
Focussing on Laurel Hubbard hides the scores of men dominating women’s sport