At the time, the liberals and the left thought of World War II as a battle between civilisation and barbarism, between progress and reaction...

I have a massive, endlessly-lengthening list of books, old and new, that I want to get around to reading.  Donny Gluckstein's new book A...

Winston Churchill was the British Secretary of State for War in 1920.  As such, he was the British politician most directly and personally ...

We've all seen him.  He's swarthy, usually (though not always) with a dark beard.  He's often wearing a fez (no, I'm not goi...

The BBC doing what it does best : "In Iran's iconography of villainy, Britain holds a special place. The UK is seen as the mastermi...

In the course of preparing myself [to play Churchill in a biopic]… I realized afresh that I hate Churchill and all of his kind. I hate them...