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

Finally finished Kershaw's biography of Hitler.  I've been working on it - both volumes, unabridged - for years, picking it up for ...

In a bunker filled with stacks and stacks of munitions shells, Millington is demonstrating his secret weapon.  He breaks a capsule inside a ...

On 'A Town Called Mercy' The ends can justify the means, but there needs to be something which justifies the ends.  - Trotsky ...

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...

Further to this post, in which I sketched out the ideas of the author China M iéville concerning the relationship between the tentacular an...

I don't wear a poppy.  Laurie Penny has written a very good article, expressing many views that I agree with,  here .  I don't engag...

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...