WWII
Blue bloods and brownshirts
The intricate relationship between German aristocrats and Nazi Germany
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
Tank warfare – its past and future
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the century of the tank
The paradox of Nazi culture
The Nazis were so obsessed with the otherness of the Jews that they created an alternative cultural universe for them
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
European champions
Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany
Britain’s Nazi collaborators
If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe
NHS Pronoun Police
Pronouns day, Unknown soldier wasn’t black, tampons go woke and the BBC is hijacked by impartiality rules
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
Thatcher and me
From Finchley Grammar to Jerusalem, Moscow, and Washington: David Smith recalls his lifelong association with Margaret Thatcher
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism
A surprising celebration
Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world
Friedrich Gulda: Symphony in G (SWR Musik)
Gulda’s Symphony in G has 35 minutes of invention, which is more than can be said for most late-twentieth century symphonies
Sinclair Hood: The archaeologist who bucked orthodoxy
The former director of the British School at Athens, who died last month at the age of 103, had a productivity in his old age that was both rare and admirable
Keep politics out of the courts
It’s not for judges to say whether witnesses should have answered MPs’ questions
Super hypocrites
Spare us the sentimental tosh about working-class sport, tradition and community
Handle this situation maturely
Or chaos with Ed Miliband
Vaccination narratives
The evolution of vaccine rollouts and the reliance on mass-media, advertising and celebrity cameos
I’m afraid of Americans
The culture war is not left against right, but the US against everyone else