Wartime Britain
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Murders for August
Locked rooms and dark churchyards
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Rumourmongering in times of crisis
Nigel Jones compares the power of rumours in Wartime Britain with the fake news afflictions of our Covid-stricken society
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
