Mortality
Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
Christopher Hitchens and the culture war
Where would the late ciceronian speaker have fit into today’s polemical battles?
The making of a maelstrom
How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain
Busy doing nothing
Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business
Outcast of the angry generation
Mahler’s political journey from Baader-Meinhof terrorist to Holocaust denier illustrates Germany’s post-Hitler psychodrama
What do the English think of Englishness?
Graham Cunningham asks why Englishness has failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations
Brits abroad are still so damn…British
After being marooned in Portugal for so long, thank goodness they are
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism
Myth of Igor, the Great Composer
Norman Lebrecht says an affair with Coco Chanel did Stravinsky’s PR, and hers, no harm at all
Nothing matters to careless people
The vigorous virtues are antique now
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising