Nazis
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
On mentioning the war
What’s behind our obsession with World War 2?
A kangaroo court
Guilt by association grips Australia
The salvation of crime fiction
In praise of delectably dark escapism
Egypt’s secret Nazi brains trust
After a humiliating defeat in the war over Israel, the Egyptians wanted revenge
The pontiff who looked the other way
David Kertzer unearths dramatic evidence from recently-released Vatican files
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world