Second World War
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
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
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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 problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was