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
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
National disservice
Young people have little to be grateful for, so why should they “give back”?
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Big Brother is talking to you
What is with London’s obsession for dystopian public address announcements?
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Harriet Pester: Bookworld PR
Alas, not everything is plain sailing in the world of book-trade PR
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
