Second World War
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
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
Will Biden be America’s Philippe Pétain?
So strong was the media’s desire to get rid of Trump, that they suspended all criticism of the cognitive decline of his successor
The day the dictators met
Thankfully, the two fascist leaders’ meeting at Hendaye remains nothing more than a footnote in history
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
