Nigel Jones
Nigel Jones is the author of eight historical books, including biographies of the writers Rupert Brooke and Patrick Hamilton. A former deputy editor of ‘History Today’ magazine and a founder editor of ‘BBC History’, he leads tours of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy for The Cultural Experience travel company.
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe