Second World War
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
On mentioning the war
What’s behind our obsession with World War 2?
The meaning of World War Two history
Our responsibility to remember
Hitler’s war — within Germany
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about life on Germany’s home front during the Second World War
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
