Dwight Eisenhower
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake