Francis PhillipsTillotson: the British mandarin class before the 1960s deluge 17 May 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: 1960s, 20th century, booksHigh culture could not save them‘Tolkien’: The early life of a creative genius on the big screen 4 May 2019 | POPCORN |
tags: biopics, JRR TolkienWith material enough for an epic, it attempts too much‘Detainment’: should a film about two boy murderers have been made? 1 Feb 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: Bulger murder, child criminalsReliving the murder of a British toddler through the testimony of his killersWhat’s in a name? The Nazi taint in ‘Asperger’s syndrome’ 18 Oct 2018 | FEATURES |
tags: autism, book reviews, NazismDr Hans Asperger consigned dozens of children in Nazi Vienna to certain death, claims a new book.Can there be too many biographies of Dr Johnson? 10 Oct 2018 | FEATURES |
tags: book reviews, Dr Johnson, literatureEven if we do not take Johnson for a guide, we cannot fail to warm to his moral stature.Can you be a feminist and pro-life? 4 Oct 2018 | FEATURES |
tags:Why not, if feminism is about justice and equality.Alfie Evans: the uses and misuses of language 2 May 2018 | FEATURES |
tags: Alfie Evans, bioethics, end-of-life issues, euthanasia, parental rightsHow about having a dispassionate, fact-based debate?The last Tsar: Nicholas II loved his country ‘not wisely but too well’ 7 Feb 2018 | FEATURES |
tags: book reviews, Russian revolution, Tsar Nicholas IIThe murder of Russia's imperial family a century ago was an inevitable tragedy.Suzanne’s Children: One woman’s selfless effort in Nazi Paris 13 Nov 2017 | FEATURES |
tags: book reviews, Holocuast, World War IIAn improbable hero of the French resistance.Party Animals: My Family and other Communists 20 Oct 2017 | FEATURES |
tags: Communism, memoir, post-war BritainGrowing up Communist in post-war London.
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