Nazis
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
In defence of Blimp
Was the reactionary caricature, immortalised by Powell and Pressburger, actually a moral visionary?
The tangled roots of the Third Reich
Almost everybody found it easier to disengage from what was happening
A sunny depiction of dark times
Unlike so many, Heffer likes his fellow countrymen and countrywomen
The elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
The strange death of liberal Germanophilia
Do the Germans “do it better”?
J’accuse: the case that never closes
France was putting itself on trial, for its actions during the war
The other one
How Edward VIII threatened the royal family
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
