Second World War
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
No blueprint for Putin’s War
The lesson of the Soviet-Finnish War warns us against misunderstanding a war in progress
The dying days of Nazi Germany
A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
The myth of the plucky Brit
Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars
Castigating Britain
Could an editor not rescue Jonathan Haslam’s new book from triteness?
The EU is no friend of ours
The European Union’s increasingly open hostility towards Britain has deep historical roots, says Nigel Jones
Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War
Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
