Winston Churchill. Will we ever see his like again?
Shamefully, for some ideologues Churchill remains veiled in a fog of negative myth making, often derided as a warmonger, a racist, an unrepentant imperialist and an intransigent enemy of the working class. Such smears say more about the people making them than Churchill
- 25 January 2015
Football and Fascism
Next time Di Canio is asked about his political opinions, maybe he should meekly reply that he is only following in the tradition of some of the most famous political and intellectual leaders the world has ever seen
- 2 April 2013
Underrated: Martin Gilbert
A tribute to a great historian, whose range of achievements dwarfs those of his academic critics
- 11 January 2013
Conservative cowardice on Israel?
Peter Oborne's recent comments on the Conservative Party and Israel are overshadowed by his fundamental misunderstanding of British politics and the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict
- 13 December 2012
The polarization of politics: Let's mingle more
Under threat in Britain, and almost dead in America, is a sense of commonality, of being part of a shared polity with people we disagree with. We need to preserve it
- 4 September 2012
Nick Clegg's kindergarten moment
Nick Clegg's tantrum is not only pathetic from a Deputy Prime Minister, but has no cause, based on analysis of the coalition agreement
- 8 August 2012
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