Underrated
Underrated: Vocational training
Skilled jobs such as carpentry and nursing will be at a premium in an automated world
Underrated: Anti-tank weapons
“Anti-weapons” are much better value for money than aircraft carriers
Underrated: German humour
Defending a nation often accused of entirely lacking a lighter side
Underrated: William Brown
The hero of the Just William books promotes free speech and debunks communism
Underrated: Shiva Naipaul
A warm and witty writer with a mordant eye for the bad and the bogus
Underrated: Wolf Biermann
The brave dissident East German singer and songwriter still standing up for freedom
Underrated: Jonathan Haidt
A bold critic of our present academic malaise
Underrated: Oswald Spengler
Saluting the memory of the seer who foresaw many of the factors threatening Western civilisation today
Underrated: Frank Field
The veteran Labour MP has always championed the poor, but has now quit the party because of the far Left’s anti-Semitism
Underrated: Oliver Cromwell
The Lord Protector welcomed Jews and tolerated Catholics
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal