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
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
