Francis Phillips

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Tillotson: the British mandarin class before the 1960s deluge

17 May 2019 | FEATURES |  

tags: 1960s, 20th century, books

High culture could not save them

‘Tolkien’: The early life of a creative genius on the big screen

4 May 2019 | POPCORN |  

tags: biopics, JRR Tolkien

With 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 criminals

Reliving the murder of a British toddler through the testimony of his killers

What’s in a name? The Nazi taint in ‘Asperger’s syndrome’

18 Oct 2018 | FEATURES |  

tags: autism, book reviews, Nazism

Dr 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, literature

Even 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 rights

How 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 II

The 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 II

An improbable hero of the French resistance.

Party Animals: My Family and other Communists

20 Oct 2017 | FEATURES |  

tags: Communism, memoir, post-war Britain

Growing up Communist in post-war London.

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