Second World War
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
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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away