WWII
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
From commemoration to cosplay
We are losing sight of what we claim to be remembering
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
How modern wars end
History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
