As we in Britain – and it seems more or less everywhere in the ‘free’ world – are finding our civil rights under attack by increasingly...

Sir Keir Starmer in the Downing Street rose garden, 27 August 2024 As Rousseau didn’t put it: ‘Man is born in the wild and everywhere he...

The Slave Ship . J M W Turner. Readers who have seen Mike Leigh’s film Mr Turner  may recall a scene in which the artist meets an old...

The aeronautical battering ram Royal Air Force Quarterly, April 1937 Through the 1930s there was, within the pages of the Royal Air Force...

A few weeks ago I published a short essay, framed as a critique of Boris Johnson’s biography of Churchill, and titled The Johnson Factor:...

Seeking to understand Boris Johnson’s behaviour in March 2020 I set about reading his biography of an earlier Prime Minister: The...

In the early dawn of 12 October 1917 the German dreadnought SMS Bayern opened fire on a submarine in the northern Baltic. Her target was...

On 13 June 1917 seventeen German aircraft flew over London and dropped seventy-two bombs on the city.

How does the ordinary person, ‘the man or woman on the Clapham omnibus’ decide what to believe and what to distrust in the great flood of...