WWII
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
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?
Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
