Second World War
Confessions of a Bourgeois Comrade
‘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’
The What-Ifs of the Last Days of Adolf Hitler
Had any one of three plausible scenarios happened, the Second World War might have been concluded a year earlier, sparing millions of lives
Is God on Our Side? Morality in World War Two
How does one fight a “just” war when warfare deranges human morals? And how does this square with one’s faith?
World War Two
Summer meant a rare opportunity to read something other than History. Carl Hiassen’s Double Whammy is extremely funny, though the context — competitive bass fishing in Florida — may seem unpropitious. Then there was David Goodis’s Black Friday and various short stories, all incredibly atmospheric, with ‘molls’ called Frieda and Myrtle in 1950s Philadelphia.
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities