World War Two
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Winston Churchill was not Tony Blair
The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since 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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them