WWII
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
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
