World War Two
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The ways of war
Geopolitics in understanding World War Two
Half a century of the World at War
It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think,the greatest
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Searching in vain for Hitler’s lethal edict
These two new histories of the holocaust add little to what is already known
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
We need to talk about Holocaust issues, but also remember righteous heroes
Marking the European Day of the Righteous, the Polish Ambassador to the UK says that public debate on the Holocaust must remember the praiseworthy acts of righteous people
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
