Conrad Black
FDR, the President whom nobody knew
Robert Dallek’s biography adds very little that is new to our knowledge of an almost totally inscrutable President
A Confederacy of Political Dunces
Double Down is a reminder of 2012’s uninspiring list of candidates for the presidency of the United States
Master and Commander
Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M Bell exonerates the wartime Prime Minister of his alleged military mistakes
Max Hastings, the Repentant Europhile
The military historian and former editor has belatedly renounced his European faith. Can we expect further recantations?
The Strange Death of Liberal Canada
The darling of progressive intellectuals, Michael Ignatieff has just led his party to a shattering and possibly terminal election defeat
History’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme
Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?
Henry the First
Kissinger’s Year: 1973 by Alistair Horne
US and Them
The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy by Frank Prochaska
Greta’s very corporate children’s crusade
Behind the schoolgirl climate warrior lies a shadowy cabal of lobbyists, investors and energy companies seeking to profit from a green bonanza
The road to hell for the mentally incapacitated
The weasel words of disability rights may be well-intentioned, but they mask institutional cruelty and deprive caring parents of their say
Cry, the rapidly crumbling country
President Ramaphosa has won the election but his position is fragile: South Africa faces poverty, inequality and corruption almost entirely self-inflicted by the ruling ANC