Military History
Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography