Winston Churchill
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?
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
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
