Communism

In Burning the Reichstag, Benjamin Carter Hett uncovers new evidence suggesting it could have been the Nazis all along

‘Although Mandela is an incomparably more important figure than Princess Diana, the process by which the real person is replaced by a fantasy is no more edifying this time’

‘I have spent this week in the lonely position of one who admires both Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher’

As the UN and the US cosy up to Iran and allow Assad to stay in power, Israel’s leader will go his own way to save his country

The Dark Road is a novel that transmits the reality of human suffering at the hands of the Chinese government

When democratic leftists embrace illiberal ideologies, they normalise the fascism of the European New Right

The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual “non-Jewish” Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust

The Iron Lady’s record with authoritarians is mixed but her profound confidence in the democratic rights of all peoples shines through

‘I’ve come to the conclusion that revolution is something you can’t make It’s a happening rather than a planned operation and attempts to force it don’t quite work out’