Winston Churchill
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
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
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
Keep buggering on
We could do worse than adopt the twin maxims of the western world’s two wartime leaders
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
Losing without a fight
No one will say the truth to the one side that is waging the culture war. The only dog in this battle will win it
The designated survivor
Churchill’s stroke in 1953 does not create a workable precedent for Dominic Raab to follow
Arthur Bryant’s floating doters
W. Sydney Robinson, the historian’s latest biographer, discovered that his subject was without scruple in matters of the heart
The Police Bill isn’t the threat to democracy the Left say it is
If you’re looking for the enemies of free speech, you’re looking the wrong way, argues Robert Poll
Thailand’s monarchy in crisis
Following the recent imprisonment of an activist for ‘disrespecting the monarchy’, James Snell looks at how Thailand’s current king differs from his predecessor
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us
How EU propaganda is targeting the youth of the UK
It is clear that the EU is still thinking of its thousand different ways to win, and it is doing so by bombarding the younger generations with pro-EU messages
The PM’s plan for lifting lockdown
A leisurely unlocking to prevent a rise in infections, or something more political?
Letter from Washington: A hurried impeachment
Impeachment was a chance for Congress to reassert its primacy. Senators chose not to
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Where is the West Country accent?
Once the BBC has finished buttering up the North, how about promoting the West? asks Roland White
Are the Bee Gees Britain’s most underrated band?
The Bee Gees have always been a target for mockery, but by force of talent and ambition, they managed to define the age around them