WWII
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
Leading by tantrum
Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
Reel hell of the Western Front
The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
We shouldn’t handle the truth about Coronavirus
There are grown-up reasons for the state and the plague is one
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
