Brendan Simms
Still waiting in the wings
The Fourth Reich concerns of the first 15 years or so after the war were essentially rational, but in the 1960s the term became “universalised”, exaggerated, and distorted
Remembering Waterloo
The New Waterloo Dispatch was a fitting commemoration of an important day not just for Britain but for all of Europe
Beware of Greeks Playing Games
Have Syriza’s negotiations failed as spectacularly as many claim?
Clegg’s Surprising Strength
‘After 2010, the Liberal Democrats got steadily stronger on foreign policy, a field in which their polyglot leader was visibly comfortable’
Getting Away With Murder
A new thriller set in late-Stalinist Soviet Union has alarmed Russian authorities
Having One’s Cake and Eating It
The Greeks do not — indeed cannot — pay their debts and yet they do not want to leave the euro. Something has got to give
Holocaust Lessons
An exhibition on Anne Frank details the lessons we should learn from her story, but making the past relevant today is not that simple
Georgians Really Revealed?
An exhibition rightly highlights a much overlooked anniversary but misses some key points about its subject
Who Set Fire to the Reichstag?
In Burning the Reichstag, Benjamin Carter Hett uncovers new evidence suggesting it could have been the Nazis all along
The Enemy Within
Jack Ryan is a modern hero taking on a modern Russia
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past