Second World War
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
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”
Why do we need a privacy elite?
The world has conformed to Silicon Valley’s way of doing business
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
