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The stab-in-the-back myth

Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis

Nazi blueprint for postwar integration

How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union

Middle-class hero

John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing

Smuggling Plato to Prague

Edward Lucas pays tribute to his father J.R. Lucas, Oxford philosopher and Cold War champion of the Czechs

American Tolstoy

Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels

Anti-China syndrome

Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?

The week the war ended

Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe

Empire of conformists

The NHS is immune to criticism because its deficiencies are seen as departures from its essential goodness

The coronavirus cure for global populism?

How the pandemic exposed some leaders’ bluster and might yet undermine authoritarian regimes

When it’s great to be British

The country of understatement and the stiff upper lip responds well in a crisis