Winston Churchill
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
A sunny depiction of dark times
Unlike so many, Heffer likes his fellow countrymen and countrywomen
The myth of Winston’s legacy
The European Court of Human Rights was never a Conservative project
The grand old man and the ingénue queen
The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch
Close, but no cigar
Dilyn the Dog and Bozzo have been playing dress up
A vivid chronicle of chroniclers
Richard Cohen’s history of histories is a gargantuan achievement
From Boris to boring
Might the British electorate have decided they have had quite enough excitement from one premier?
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
Renaissance prince
Wide-ranging interest and inquiry no longer seems compatible with those who bear the pressures of public life
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?
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
