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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)