Michael Mosbacher
Choking Charities
‘Charitable income will suffer from the Budget, as the Treasury knows’
From Krupp to Aldi
A new history of the Krupps and their firm is a reminder of their murky wartime record.
Frank Furedi
Michael Mosbacher charts the evolution of a hard-line Marxist into the leader of a cult that believes its “progressive” ends justify any means
Overrated: Seumas Milne
Update October 2015: Stalin admirer Seumas Milne has now been appointed by Jeremy Corbyn as head of strategy and communications for the Labour Party. Milne is now on leave from the Guardian. Corbyn’s people have stated that: “Seumas shares Jeremy’s world view almost to the letter … they sing from the same hymn sheet”.
Uncharitable Act
Britain’s claim to be the world’s foremost philanthropic nation is under threat under George Osborne’s new reforms
Overrated: Richard Layard
The indefatigable showbusiness veteran manages to deliver happiness without a PhD or a government diktat
Hegemony 101
Antonio Gramsci’s great theory has cropped up in an unlikely place — the A-level geography classroom
Seeing Red
Who is behind the “No to EU, Yes to Democracy” Party that received 150, 000 votes in June’s European elections?
From One Oxymoron to Another
The think-tank Demos has switched from New Labour to ‘Progressive Conservatism’. Philip Blond has journeyed from ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ to ‘Red Toryism’. Now the two have joined forces and both Right and Left have been taken in
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal