WWII
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
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
