Second World War
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The joy of war films
For decades, they have connected generations around culture, history and the love of a good story
When the Nazis occupied Britain
When necessary engagement becomes collaboration is an unspoken question
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
