Winston Churchill
Master and Commander
Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M Bell exonerates the wartime Prime Minister of his alleged military mistakes
No Life Was Untouched
Christy Campbell’s focused, meticulous account of the V-weapon campaign of 1944 provides a neat counterpoint to the magisterial grand narrative of Antony Beevor’s The Second World War
Bowled Over
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places
O Lucky Man
Gary Player famously said “the more I practice the luckier I get”. But does this sporting adage work for politicians?
It Was All Rot About All Souls
Book review of All Souls and the Wider World edited by S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden
Some of Their Best Friends
Book review of The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Moderation in (Almost) All
Book review of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
Why the World Needs a Younger Winston
Seventy years after the Battle of Britain, we again face the threat of a new Dark Age. Can our leaders emulate Churchill’s finest hour?
Should We Know About our Leaders’ Health?
Three Prime Ministers in the 20th century had historically important illnesses before they assumed office — Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Anthony Eden. To what extent did their ill health affect their policy decisions?
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?