Military History
Nazi foreign policy — did Hitler know what he was doing?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Nazi foreign policy differed from the traditional objectives of German nationalism
Slaughter and forgetting
Strange echoes at Bosworth Field
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
Germany during the Great War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Germany was governed during the pressures of the First World War
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
Did prayer decide the Battle of Goose Green?
The expedition to take back the Falkland Islands was riskier than we might think
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
The fate of the Moskva
Campaign Diary: The sinking of the decaying Soviet-era warship symbolises Russia’s military malaise
The battlefield priest
Heroism, compassion and enduring hope: the lost war letters of Canon Laurie
Is the situation in Ukraine comparable to the siege of Leningrad?
There are more similarities than differences
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature