Simon Heffer
Bad Manors
A pivotal moment in British movie history — and Bob Hoskins’s greatest performance
A Raspberry for Emetic Music
It is time to make a stand against incomprehensible modern music
History is Now and England
The hushed-up glories of Huntingdonshire are worthy of praise
A Saga with Staying Power
Revisiting the unsurpassed TV glories of The Forsyte Saga
Musical Testosterone at the Proms
William Walton was inspired by sexual energy
Poet of Eternal Summer
Rupert Brooke deserves to be taken seriously
How to Save London’s Skyline
London needs protecting against the current invasion of skyscrapers
The Kaiser Was No Hitler
In 1914 the German people wanted war no more than the British
The Best Years of American Cinema
The greatest American movie of all time was made in 1946 and you’ll never have heard of it
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?