The World at War
Half a century of the World at War
It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think,the greatest
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)