Viscount Montgomery
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year