WWII
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism