Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government.
Winston Churchill
‘D-Day Has Come’
In spring 1944 the Allied invasion of France seemed inevitable. D-Day’s success was contingent on deception of the enemy. For that, officials turned to the press.
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
Cita Stelzer’s Churchill’s American Network and David Reynolds’ Mirrors of Greatness seek to bring Churchill’s contemporaries and adversaries out of his shadow.
The Prime Minister and the President
John F. Kennedy idolised Winston Churchill, but his efforts to host his hero proved abortive.
War Orgasms
Assessing the Churchill balance sheet.
The End of the French Empire in North Africa
Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.
The World According to Churchill
Churchill’s vision of Britain’s role in the world may provide the key to Brexit.
Churchill, God and the Bomb
Did the idea of nuclear war make Britain’s wartime leader more God-fearing?
Boris Johnson's Abuse of Churchill
In using Churchill to justify his Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson 'paints a barbarically simplified and ill-informed picture of what Churchill stood for'.
Churchill and the Taxman
The great statesman had a cavalier approach to his tax affairs.