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?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
Elder abuse
The US Presidential debate exposed a man far too old to do the job
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
