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.
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
The Tories are victims of themselves
It is futile to complain about the consequences of laws they have established or upheld
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Organic snake oil salesmen
The Greens have an easy answer for any question (well, almost any question)
The love that can’t be erased
A recent court case exposed the surrogacy industry’s big lie