More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War
Amnesty International is wrong to brand Alexei Navalny an anti-hero
The response to the political plight of Navalny has demonstrated that many civil rights organisations are neither principled nor brave
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
From Pontypool to Pauillac
Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice
He’d have snapped minutes in
They came to praise the world consort
Schools must fight to defend freedom of expression
The cowardice of senior staff at Batley Grammar should be a lesson to all educationalists about the importance of defending open discussion
The cost of being a lockdown sceptic
The British intelligentsia as a class has failed in the most public way possible to defend free speech
French Connections
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart France’s historical inheritance
Anna Clyne: Mythologies (Avie)
Clyne’s debut record is a validation of the continuing relevance of classical form in the twenty-first century
Cancel culture comes for Dr Seuss
Is the Democratic Party under Joe Biden becoming the party of banning books?