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• ‘A war for Middle East stability’: Israeli President Isaac Herzog on what’s at stake in the conflict with Hamas
• ‘Appeasement’ Review: What Were They Thinking? Britain’s establishment coalesced around appeasement and bared its teeth at those who dared to oppose it.
• ‘The Duke is one of the reasons Britons feel blessed to have a monarchy’
• ‘The River War’ Review: Churchill and the Battle That Shaped Him
• “The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill”: a Review
• 《贝尔福宣言》100周年（原文） A century on, the Declaration stands as a righteous blow for genius, development, progress and freedom.
• 'Advance, Britannia!' How Winston Churchill's speeches enraptured his nation on VE Day The themes Prime Minister Winston Churchill pursued that day in 1945 were central to his whole political philosophy, writes Andrew Roberts
• 'There are three possible outcomes to this war': Henry Kissinger interview | The Spectator
• 10 Lessons From History About What Makes a Truly Great Leader With the 2020 presidential election approaching, America is bracing to choose its next leader in a time of incredible change and upheaval.
• 75 years after D-Day we're still astounded by the sheer scale of Operation Overlord To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history,’ General Bernard Montgomery, commander of Allied land forces, told his troops on the eve of D-Day, ‘and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of …
• A Fake False Flag An article this week in the British Daily Mail this week was entitled “Did the British plant a bomb at the 1940 World’s Fair to kill two NYPD officers and bring the U.S. into World War II?” It was one of those classic newspaper headlines to which the …
• A glorious, flag-waving defence of our kingdom’s union: Whisper it – Britain would be nothing without Scotland… and Scotland will be nothing if conceited Salmond’s in charge Imagine yourself at a very smart dinner party and the conversation gets round to the issue of Scottish independence. Suppose people whose intelligence and thoughtfulness you’ve long respected, such as Sir David Attenborough and historians Simon Schama…
• A great realignment is coming. We cannot assume Labour will survive it There is no law of politics that states that a party must live forever. If the circumstances that brought it into existence change fundamentally and the party cannot or will not adapt, it will die.
• A Lesson of Waterloo The bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo—perhaps the most significant battle in European history—is already being celebrated, despite the crescendo not coming until the anniversary itself, Thursday, June 18th.
• A Philatelic Flaw The Royal Mail in Britain is often held up as an example of meticulous accuracy and research, but not this month when it got its military history so disastrously wrong as to announce a new stamp purportedly showing Allied soldiers wading ashore in Norm…
• Abwarten, Kassandra Das Brexit-Drehbuch scheint bereits geschrieben: Die EU gibt sich stark, einig und siegesgewiss, ­Grossbritannien dagegen verzagt, chaotisch und zerstritten. Die Europäer freuen sich zu früh.
• All the 'black spider memos' expose is the passion and dignity of Prince Charles The publication of the Prince of Wales’ private letters has backfired on those who seek to belittle him, and revealed the idiocy of the human rights industry…
• Americans love Churchill for his humor and courage The British MP John McDonnell might think Churchill a villain, but he’s beloved in America. I’ve just returned from a 10-week, 18-state, 27-city, 87-speech book tour there, and can report that the enthusiasm for all things Churchillian in the USA is …
• And we’re off! The Tories used to be the party of Europe but once Thatcher realised she was dealing with a ‘rotten lot’, we were on the road to divorce
• Andrew Roberts
• ANDREW ROBERTS Winston Churchill was a true hero – it’s insane to call him a war criminal David Olusoga, the historian who presents the Civilisations series on the BBC, has become the latest high-profile figure to take aim at Winston Churchill.
• Andrew Roberts: 2016's parallels with the revolutions of 1848 2016 has been a momentous year. The UK’s Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump confounded the expectations, while the wars in Syria and Yemen caused more bloodshed. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme asked top historians for their assessment of the year
• Andrew Roberts’s diary: Just who’s the despot here – Napoleon or Paxman? To the British embassy in Paris for a colloquium on ‘Napoleon and Wellington in War and Peace’ organised by our ambassador, Sir Peter Ricketts, to mark the bicentenary of the purchase of the embassy from Pauline Borghese, Napoleon’s sister…
• Andrew Roberts’s guide to Churchill on screen From Soviet propaganda and revisionist nonsense to Simon Ward and Gary Oldman: the best and worst Churchills on film and TV Andrew Roberts
• Antony’s Downfall | National Review
• As a truly independent nation for the first time in nearly half a century, our triumphs will be ours alone – but if things go wrong, we'll be the only ones to blame The year 2020 will be a momentous one in British history, but not for the reasons most people assume.
• Balancing Interests and Fears History suggests that no two nations’ relations ever deteriorate so much that it becomes impossible to find common ground if both perceive that a third nation’s ambitions threatens them more.
• Battle lines drawn in Tory civil war Britain was on its knees and lacking good leaders when it joined the EEC in 1973. Now much stronger, it must break free of its continental shackles and embrace freedom, writes Britain’s leading Tory historian
• Battles Of Kharkov
• Blood, Toil, Tears, and Churchill The popular historian Erik Larson has done it again.
• Blue Blooded Black Sheep When the long-term survival of their institution is at peril the Royal Family acts swiftly and ruthlessly. Fortunately for Prince Andrew, there are a few ancestors of his who have also been treated the same way.
• Book Review – Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E Ricks Although Winston Churchill and George Orwell never met or even corresponded, the American military historian Thomas E Ricks has linked them in a book subtitled The Fight for Freedom.
• Book Review: 'War of Attrition' by William Philpott; 'The Great War for Peace' by William Mulligan'; 'The Long Shadow' by David Reynolds Although George Kennancalled World War I the “seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century, it does not loom large in the national consciousness of United States, wedged uncomfortably between the Civil War and World War II in the popular imagination…
• Boots on the ground to hunt ISIL September 11th in New York, then Madrid, then Bali, then 7/7 in London, then Mumbai, then Charlie Hebdo, then Sharm-el-Sheikh, and now Paris, with hundreds of smaller incidents in between.
• Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds' wedding reminds us of the importance of No10's other halves
• Boris Johnson's White House-style briefings will only further trivialise British politics It is easy to see why the PM wants to cut out the media, but he will regret it if he does
• Brendan Bracken – ‘more Churchillian than Churchill’ Churchill’s faithful and most trusted political advisor was indispensable to the British war effort.
• Brexit Britain is the true heir to Ancient Greece – just ask the Elgin Marbles In the great debate over whether Britain should return the Elgin Marbles to Athens – as Greece is demanding as its price for signing off an EU free trade deal – no-one seems to have asked the Marbles themselves.
• Brexit is a more impressive achievement than the French Revolution On Easter Sunday, May 6 1867, the Reform League pressure group had a difficult decision to make. Would they obey the diktat of the Home Secretary, Spencer Walpole, and not hold a huge meeting in Hyde Park to call for Reform, or would they defy him?
• Brexit will be good for the British national character. It will reintroduce risk-taking and self-reliance On Thursday February 24, 1848, all Europe was in uproar. King Louis-Philippe of France was overthrown in Paris where the mob looted the Tuileries palace. “Everything was broken up, looted and pillaged,” …
• Britain and Obama’s ‘Back of the Queue’ I hope that Americans who know what self-government means to a free people will rally to the cause of an independent Britain.
• Britain has become an adult once again, taking ultimate responsibility for our own choices and actions “Nothing can save England if she will not save herself,” Winston Churchill told his countrymen on St George’s Day 1933. “If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.”…
• Britain is in the grip of another pandemic – and it's bossiness
• Britain needs an official inquiry into how the elite turned Brexit into a national humiliation The humiliation that has befallen the United Kingdom over the past three years and four months as the direct result of the refusal of our political class to respect the EU referendum of June 2016 needs to be investigated by an official committee
• Britain will be better off as a junior partner of the United States than an EU vassal resident Emmanuel Macron of France has stated that closer Anglo-American ties post-Brexit would come at the cost of what he has called “a historic vassalisation of Britain”. Is he right? In stark contrast to the EU, the United States has never attempt…
• Britons should follow PM's lead and take more power naps BORIS JOHNSON has been criticised for taking power naps of half an hour or so after lunch occasionally. I have been taking naps – my wife says I can’t call them power naps until I’m powerful enough to deserve it
• By pandering to woke casting, Bridgerton has ignored how fascinating Queen Charlotte's life really was Bridgerton’s portrayal of Queen Charlotte has prioritised fiction and fancy over the chance to tell the true story of an admirable woman
• Caesar’s Assassination In Gold | Hoover Institution
• Cameron’s fight with the Premier’s Curse History judges most PMs by one thing only: the manner of their exit. Today Cameron seems a failure, but look closer and his successes — from gay marriage to fighting Islamism — mount up
• Cameron's travesty of history: The PM must know it's bunkum to say Brexit raises the threat of war. It just shows the panic at No10, says historian ANDREW ROBERTS The Prime Minister’s speech at the British Museum yesterday marked a desperate new low for the Remain campaign. He employed cod history, absurd conjecture, total non sequiturs and one straight- forward untruth to argue that the course of British….
• Can you guess the key to their success? With Fathers' Day on Sunday, Napoleon, Barack Obama and John Major have one thing in common Fathers’ Day on Sunday will rightly celebrate the vital role fathers play as the bedrocks of society. And for people whose parents are no longer with them it can be a doleful time of reflection and a reminder of loss.
• Cancel-Culture: We Expected Better from the National Trust and the BBC A historic slander When two great British institutions launch simultaneous attacks on the Greatest Briton, something is going on. The pincer assault by the BBC and National Trust on Sir Winston Churchill’s reputation crossed a line.
• CANZUK: after Brexit, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Britain can unite as a pillar of Western civilisation Of all the many splendid opportunities provided by the British people’s heroic Brexit vote, perhaps the greatest is the resuscitation of the idea of a CANZUK Union.
• Channel 4 has become a Left-wing Frankenstein
• Churchill There have been 1,009 biographies of Winston Churchill, the British wartime leader from 1940 to 1945, written over the past 113 years, so is there space for yet another one? I believe so, and have just published ‘Churchill: Walking with Destiny’ in Lon…
• Churchill After the War I found it very odd being turned out of power just at the moment when I imagined I would be able to reap where I had sown,” Winston Churchill wrote about his 1945 general-election defeat to his old friend Hugh Tudor in January 1946 …..
• Churchill and the Flu CEOs and business leaders are having to take decisions with potential life or death consequences. Andrew Roberts explores how Winston Churchill was shaped by pandemic, and what lessons his leadership holds.
• Churchill as villain – but is this a character assassination too far? | The Spectator
• Churchill Challenged Review of 'The Churchill Documents, Volume 19' Edited by Larry P. Arnn and Martin Gilbert Hillsdale College in Michigan has taken on the herculean task of editing the written raw material of the life of Winston Churchill, what are known as the companion volumes to Randolph Churchill and Sir Martin Gilbert’s official biography.
• Churchill did not have an affair – so don’t fall for Channel 4’s spin To present this story without interviewing any Churchill historians, or members of the family, is a disgrace – Andrew Roberts
• Churchill on Europe – by Felix Klos There is a fascinating book to be written about Winston Churchill’s relationship with the concept of a United Europe. Unfortunately, for all its hype, Felix Klos has written only the first part of it, and not, in fact, the most important part either.
• Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain BOOKS Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain Felix Klos’s central premise is all wrong, says Andrew Roberts. Churchill wanted Britain to be with Europe, but not a part of it. – Andrew Roberts
• Churchill würde weinen Lead
 
EU-Kommissions-Präsident Juncker schmückte sich zum Jubiläum 
der Zürcher Europa-Rede von Winston Churchill mit dessen Federn. 
Das ist ziemlich unverfroren.
• Churchill, Cambridge and the battle for history | The Spectator
• Churchill: Retorts and All Hillsdale College in Michigan has for many years now been undertaking the truly mammoth task of publishing every significant primary document relating to the life of Sir Winston Churchill, a project that is now finally nearing its end. The 20th volum …
• Churchill's Surprising Anti-Americanism And What Changed Andrew Roberts is the author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. He is also the bestselling author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945, Waterloo: Napoleo…
• Civilization In The Crossfire It’s not often that Queen Zenobia, who ruled the Palmyrene Empire in the 3rd century AD…
• Comrade Corbyn's palace coup 4 Jun 2017 – Comrade Corbyn’s palace coup. It’s 2022 and the coalition of chaos has plunged Britain into bankruptcy, but the PM has one last surprise.
• Confessions of David Cameron Dear Diary, I made some big mistakes in the EU referendum campaign.
• Could the First World War have been ended two years earlier?
• Damn Madness: As the last Dambuster squadron pilot dies, a top historian says a planned remake of the legendary film The last of the 19 heroic pilots who flew with the Dambusters in World War II is dead. Squadron Leader Les Munro, a New Zealander who piloted a Lancaster bomber in Operation Chastise…
• David Cameron can be a greater Prime Minister than even his own political hero, Harold Macmillan Historic is one of the most misused words in the politician’s lexicon, employed whenever they mean ‘significant’…
• David Cameron’s place in the premier league of Tory history How will he remembered compared with Thatcher, Disraeli, Salisbury or Macmillan? You can be sure he’s thinking about it
• David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts on Ukraine and the future of warfare
• Dear Barack Obama, leave Britain alone! The president’s intervention in the EU debate is bad for the UK — and the US.
• Defending Churchill from the woke assault on his ‘truth’ just got harder
• Deluded Leftists fail to see that Mrs Thatcher’s legacy will never be sunk The Iron Lady’s critics are still resorting to irrelevant and dated attacks that won’t dent her reputation
• Denis Healey was the worst Chancellor Britain has ever had The admonition not to speak ill of the dead is an ancient and honourable one but it has been taken far too far in the case of Denis Healey, who died on Saturday. All too often the obituarists, in articles with headlines such as “Best Prime Minister…
• Diary: Cars, claret and the constitution. The passions of Jacob Rees-Mogg I interviewed Jacob Rees-Mogg about his passions at Five Hertford Street, the private members’ club, on Wednesday. There were a surprising number of them, and they all seemed to begin with the letter ‘C’.
• Discoveries in Cave Illuminate Jewish History
• Dissenters live in fear and serious debate is silenced by the woke mob leading America's cultural revolution It gets more ludicrous with every passing day – and more sinister. Take the case of Professor Patricia Simon, from Marymount Manhattan College in New York, who made the mistake of failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic in the course of a Zoom meeting.
• Donald Trump is the Mussolini of America with double the vulgarity Republicans are right to fear demagoguery of the one candidate who makes Hillary Clinton look electable
• Drink cognac, keep calm and carry on. Just like Churchill The Green Party is calling for a four-day week to fight stress, the new scourge of our times. Instead of damaging the economy in this way, I would like to propose the Winston Churchill Stress-Busting Technique. No-one in British history was under ….
• Dunkirk Undone The retreat from the Continent was a perilous time for Britain. The Germans were willing to throw everything into making it as dangerous and costly as possible for the island people. Britain’s French allies were full of suspicion about what they were …
• Embracing de Gaulle Oooh la la! The news that a new biopic movie about General Charles de Gaulle is about to be released showing him making love to his wife Yvonne shortly before the Germans invaded France in 1940 has left the normally-relaxed French all of a fluster.
• Emerald Guile. Churchill and Ireland. By Paul Bew Paul Bew has achieved the near impossible: he has somehow written a book on an important aspect of Winston Churchill’s statecraft that is totally comprehensive, genuinely ground-breaking and yet capable of being read in an afternoon.
• Even crushing Ukraine won’t satisfy Putin’s warped territorial ambitions (telegraph.co.uk)
• Every time I bid for a memento of the Iron Lady, the hedgies hammered me Andrew Roberts was desperate to buy at last week’s Thatcher auction but found rich foreigners put even one of his own books out of reach
• Farewell to arms: Britain’s depleted military
• Feminine Spycraft The Times of London report that Mata Hari, the notorious World War One double agent, owed her downfall to MI5 rather than to the French secret service comes at a time when the British domestic security service could do with some good news, even if …
• Fidel Castro was a cruel dictator. Ignore the revisionists Why are left-wing dictators always treated with more reverential respect when they die than right-wing ones, even on the Right?
• Find out what the CBI thinks and do the opposite One of the most important and powerful bodies that the British people will look to for guidance in how to vote in the euro-referendum will be the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and its pronouncements on whether or not staying in Europe…
• Five arguments for voting Tory (and one for anything but) Election-day addresses from Andrew Roberts, Julian Fellowes, Michael Burleigh, Susan Hill, Robin Hanbury-Tenison and David Hare…
• For a better tomorrow, Palestinians need to forget historical grievances
• From an Era of Refugee Millions, Only Palestinians Remain On Tuesday, as Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the murder in a Jerusalem synagogue of five Israelis, the Spanish Parliament happened to be passing a nonbinding motion…
• Gen. David Petraeus and historian Andrew Roberts: The huge challenge facing Israel
• Gerry Adams racial slur shows he understands history about as well as his friends Livingstone and Corbyn Gerry Adams has made an apology to African-Americans for using the ‘N’ word to liken their plight to that of the Catholics of Northern Ireland. ‘Watching Django Unchained,’ he tweeted, ‘a Ballymurphy N****r!’
• Gorbachev did not end the Cold War alone — the West won – Engelsberg Ideas
• Great leaders How can one hundred people be led by a single person?’ That was one of the essay questions in my Cambridge University entrance exam back in 1981, and, although it has long fascinated me it is only recently that I have tried to answer it, in a series of…
• Greed is good and the PM shouldn’t be embarrassed for having said so It was capitalism that gave us the vaccines, as the immoral European Union is discovering to its cost
• Hail our future Queen Camilla! Ahead of her 70th birthday, ANDREW ROBERTS writes it's time to make Charles' wife the Princess of Wales and lay the ghost of Diana to rest Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be 70 tomorrow, which will be an ideal time for a 12-year-old wrong to be righted. At the time of her marriage to Prince Charles on April 9, 2005, a jittery Palace – worried that she would be unpopular – announced that..
• Harman's shameful kangaroo court will make a Boris comeback even more likely, writes ANDREW ROBERTS | Daily Mail Online
• Henry Kissinger interview: ‘I don’t see the wisdom there once was’ Henry Kissinger doesn’t believe in retirement. At 91, having had a heart-valve operation three months ago, he is nonetheless publishing a book entitled World Order…
• Henry Kissinger saved us from a much worse world
• Here’s an election idea: why not weaponise defence? A few weeks ago, Boris Johnson posed a question in his residents’ survey for the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency…
• HIDDEN DIARIES – From having lunch with Churchill to Pearl Harbour, King George’s wartime diaries reveal what he REALLY thought about WW2 DURING Friday’s VE Day celebrations Prince Charles will read the words his grandfather King George VI wrote in his diary about the historic moment war ended in Europe 75 years ago.
• Historian Andrew Roberts reflects on the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission “The way in which the Commonwealth War Graves Commission keeps cemeteries is absolutely unrivalled in the world.” Historian Andrew Roberts reflects on the work of the CWGC.
• Historic Refurbishments Needed for Britain’s Royal Naval College
• Hollywood portrayed the governing class as traitors for decades – the Capitol attack is no surprise The disgraceful scenes that took place on Capitol Hill last Wednesday are of course primarily the fault of President Trump’s deliberate incitement.
• How Boris is taking lessons from his hero Churchill: ANDREW ROBERTS on how the Prime Minister is using Winston's playbook to guide him through the coronavirus crisis It is a sobering thought, as Boris Johnson emerges from self-isolation, that coronavirus would probably have killed Winston Churchill had he caught it any time between his first serious bout of pneumonia in May 1943 and his fourth in February 1945.
• How Britain tried to stop Communism – and failed
• How dare Remainers say Boris is undemocratic – his resolve will hand Parliament's power to the people in perpetuity, writes ANDREW ROBERTS Who could have guessed that Boris Johnson’s brave and correct decision to prorogue Parliament for four weeks would serve up so many rich and enjoyable ironies for the British people? What pleasure he has inadvertently given us. There is Shadow Chancel…
• How to Write History When our forefathers sat around the fire in their caves telling stories about the famous mastodon hunts of yesteryear, they found it easy to do, because their listeners always wanted to know the answer to the eternal question “What happened next?”
• https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2022/the-grand-old-man-and-the-ingenue-queen/
• https://weltwoche.ch/daily/napoleon-of-fleet-street/
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11200393/King-Charles-not-delay-tour-Commonwealth-writes-leading-historian-ANDREW-ROBERTS.html
• https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-10998835/History-remember-Johnson-great-leader-unlike-John-Major-ANDREW-ROBERTS-pens-farewell.html
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/13/will-lost-conservatives-fail-embrace-reagans-central-lesson/
• I wrote the book on Napoleon Bonaparte – Emmanuel Macron is no Napoleon Bonaparte Coming to power in their thirties by defeating an ultra-Right attempt to take over France, these handsome politicians were well-read and highly intelligent, having enjoyed the finest education that the country had to offer.
• If Churchill were alive today he'd realise the true irony – and the horror – of Labour's anti-Semitism If any Labour supporter was beginning to hope that the party had managed to draw a line under the row over anti-Semitism, the vote of no confidence in Joan Ryan MP, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel, by her local party will have abruptly disabused …
• If the monarchy is really as bad as Harry and Meghan say, why don't they give up their Royal titles? People who are driven to a mental state whereby they no longer want to live should surely turn to therapy, not Oprah
• If Theresa May 'keeps buggering on', she could be one of our longest-serving prime ministers Only the previous year, the Tory prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, had called a general election he hadn’t needed over the issue of Britain’s trading relations with the rest of the world, and although the Conservatives had been returned as the largest …
• If we hate our own culture, it's little wonder young Muslims are turning to terrorism “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and apart from the mainstream…..
• In defence of Oliver Cromwell, the man who saved England from tyranny In his attempts to have a bust of Oliver Cromwell removed from Parliament, Labour MP Stephen Pound is presumably trying to make a cheap political point about the ill-treatment of Catholic Irishmen in Cromwell’s campaigns.Yet if it had not been for Crom…
• In defence of Zac Goldsmith There are few sights more unedifying in politics than Tory politicians lining up at the TV studios to kick a good man when he’s down, but that is what is happening to Zac Goldsmith right now.
• In Defense of King George
• In defense of King George III
• In Search of Lost Glory For over two centuries, no one has known the final resting place of one of Napoleon’s favorite generals, Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, who disappeared during the French invasion of Russia in 1812.
• In silent crowds and long queues, we see a Britain many feared was lost (telegraph.co.uk)
• In toppling Thomas Jefferson, the woke mob has shown that it wants to destroy America itself
• Indian Military Truths Military history has been much in the news in India this month because it was twisted by Narenda Modi, the Prime Minister and leader of the ultra-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, in a blatant attempt to besmirch his great rival, the Congress Party …
• Indians are getting post truth history about winston churchill Also in Andrew Roberts’s Jaipur notebook: Brexit and empire; and are biographers like serial killers?
• Interests First: Discarding Bad Agreements The news that General Mike Flynn has become National Security Advisor has worried some Americans but delighted others, not least (for both groups) because of his stated objections to the Iranian nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration…
• Is Nord Stream 2 Penance For World War II? Military history burst onto the news last week with the statement of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany justifying the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany as an apology for Operation Barbarossa
• Israel’s Challenge in Responding to a Brutal Surprise Attack
• Japan Offers Minimal Treatment For South Korea’s Unhealed Wounds
• Jean Hanoteau, ed., Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza (1935) Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza and Master of the Horse to Napoleon, came from an ancient Picardy family and was the son of a general. He was a sixteen-year-old soldier when the French Revolution broke out, but survived despite …
• Jeremy Corbyn would be Labour’s most left-wing leader in history The seemingly inexorable rise of Jeremy Corbyn towards the leadership of the Labour Party might seem like a truly extraordinary political event, but in fact there is plenty of historical precedent for what the Left of British politics is going through…
• Jeremy Corbyn's dedication to a murderous ideology is exactly why Labour is doomed Last weekend, John McDonnell told Andrew Marr that he thought there was a “lot to learn” from Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. Jeremy Corbyn leapt to the Labour shadow chancellor’s defence, praising Marx as a “great economist”.
• John Major is wrong about Europe and “splendid isolation” “For the United Kingdom,” former prime minister Sir John Major told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning, “67 million out of a world population of 7 billion, to break off and head into splendid isolation doesn’t seem to me to be in our interests.”
• Josh Ireland's Churchill & Son: Review
• Ken Livingstone gets the history wrong on anti-semitism and Hitler Ken Livingstone’s characteristically outrageous intervention in the debate over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party – denying it existed while simultaneously proving that it does – was wrong on all sorts of levels, but one of them was in his grotesque…
• King William
• Kutuzov by Alexander Mikaberidze review: the fat, elderly one-eyed general who outwitted Napoleon – and was immortalised in War and Peace (telegraph.co.uk)
• Lest We Forget Lithuania “Russia is not a superpower, it’s a super problem,” the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevičius, said on November 18, ten days after Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States.
• Like Brutus, Gove agonised…but he made his move like a Prime Minister, says historian ANDREW ROBERTS He might seem too modest and polite to be a Man of Destiny, but that is what Michael Gove now is, and it’s partly down to what he keeps in the large shed at the bottom of his garden.
• Like Churchill in 1942, Boris Johnson will prove the moaning minnies wrong The House of Commons was in a restive mood as one MP after another, from both sides of the aisle, rose to attack the government for its performance in the crisis.
• Lord Heseltine flunks history A former British minister gets it wrong on cabinet responsibility.
• Mannerheim, Churchill, and the Quandary of Finland in Two World Wars Winston Churchill and Marshal Carl-Gustav Mannerheim, the father of modern Finland, had much in common, which engendered mutual admiration. They were both aristocrats, cavalrymen, immensely well-travelled (including in India). Both were Great War soldi…
• Marlborough: In its pages, Churchill laid the basis of his own greatness In early October 1933, Winston Churchill published the first volume of Marlborough: His Life and Times. The one-million-word book, published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938, took him as long to research and write as it took Marlborough himself …..
• Marxist drive to cover up our past is no way to come to terms with it Local people should decide on the future of place names, not the petty tyrants of the Red Guard
• Marxists are wrong – ‘great’ individuals can change history (telegraph.co.uk)
• Mary Churchill’s memories – and admiration – of her father | The TLS
• Military Pageantry At The Royal Wedding Although Prince Harry’s marriage last week to Ms. Meghan Markle was not a military occasion, the groom and best man wore uniforms and more than 250 servicemen from units with storied military histories took part, so I think it’s acceptable to report …
• Modern criticism of Winston Churchill is fake history – it’s based on quotes taken out of context The movie Darkest Hour, in which Gary Oldman won an Oscar playing Winston Churchill, has garnered many plaudits, and deservedly so. It introduced a new generation to Churchill and the inspiring story of 1940, reminding them of how Britain stood alone for
• Mr. Attlee's Hour The genteel socialist who transformed Britain.
• My hope for Ukraine
• Napoleon’s challengers didn’t fear Brexit and nor should we ‘I believe and confess that a people can value nothing more highly than the dignity and liberty of its existence,’ Carl von Clausewitz wrote to his patron and mentor, Count von Scharnhorst, when he resigned from the Prussian civil service in order to…
• Nato has to wake up to the crises threatening us The Nato Summit in Wales on September 4-5, hosted by David Cameron, is the most important since the end of the Cold War. Nato and the West now face the greatest number of serious, simultaneous and still growing threats since 1989…
• New Winston Churchill Movie Biopic Gets Nearly Everything Wrong A movie is to be released in June which purports to tell the story of Winston Churchill’s life in the week running up to Operation Overlord, the attack on the Normandy beaches which began on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
• New Zealand votes for history, democracy, and globalisation Yet again New Zealand has shown what a truly splendid country it is. In the face of modern fashion, political correctness, Leftist sneers, its prime minister’s urging, and bien pensant accusations of an obsession with the past, the Kiwis have voted by…
• Niall Ferguson’s ‘Kissinger. Volume I. 1923-1968: The Ideal­ist’ It is very rare for an official biography to be also a revisionist biography, but this one is. Usually it’s the official life that the revisionists attempt to dissect and ­refute, but such is the historical reputation of Henry Kissinger, and…
• Not-So-Great Scott
• Now Donald Trump is elected President, Brits have to make the best of things we can't change People despised Ronald Reagan when he was elected too, but he went on to be one of the greats. So let’s suspend our ire, for a couple of months at least
• On the Spot: Andrew Roberts We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on the Tudors …
• Once-in-a-lifetime campaign that enthused, divided – then united a nation The Scottish independence vote pitted neighbour against neighbour, young against old and even husband against wife in impassioned though generally good-natured debate…
• OPINION: Declaration was the best thing Lord Balfour ever did Acclaimed historian Andrew Roberts reflects on the significance of the document which signalled British support for Zionism
• Our PMs are either bookie premiers or bishops. My money’s on raffish Boris Johnson –not the angry, finger-wagging high priest of Marxism Jeremy Corbyn To succeed pre-eminently in British public life,’ observed the great journalist and political commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, ‘it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or a bishop.’
• Our political leaders are right to compare Putin to Hitler. That's why we need to spend much more on defence – as Churchill urged in the Thirties
• Out Of The Gate And Into The Fire When a new American president is elected, the world likes to test him within the first few weeks or months of taking power. The witness of history is almost universal in this, so much so that the phenomenon cannot be accidental.
• Passchendaele At 100 The centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, has been the big military history story in the news this week, with the British press covering it far more extensively than any other Great War centenary story, …
• Paul Johnson, 1928–2023
• Peer Reviewed Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, fifth Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927), personifies the positive qualities of the aristocracy. The reason these people were given fine educations, enormous privileges and almost unlimited leisure was so that they…
• Playing down the Special Relationship is a gift to the EU and the Left
• PMs have the toughest job in Britain. ANDREW ROBERTS
• Present-day lessons from past masters | Andrew Roberts | The Critic Magazine
• Propaganda On Parade There can hardly be a more direct connection between military history and current affairs than over the celebration of the 70th anniversary of V-E Day in Russia on May 9…
• Read the account of how two brothers helped Daily Mail take flight
• Rebuilding The Navy A scholarly and well written article in National Review Online (“The Naval War of 1812: TR’s Forgotten Masterpiece,” April 28, 2018) by a neophyte writer Moshe Wander addresses Theodore Roosevelt’s seminal work The Naval War of 1812 and the effect it …
• Referendums are a quintessentially British institution ‘I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,’ Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, ‘which has only too often been the instrument of Nazism and Fascism.’ The Ref
• Remembering The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Simcha Rotem, one of the last-known surviving fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April-May 1943, died in Jerusalem on December 23, 2018, aged 94. His death prompted a good deal of global coverage, since the story of the Ghetto Uprising—not to be…
• Repatriated Remains As though the negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union are not complicated and contentious enough, a group of French historians have now made an official request to the British Foreign Office …….
• RESILIENCE AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW ROBERTS Octavian Report: Can you tell us what made Churchill, in your view, so effective as a leader during crisis?
• Royal visit to Israel breaks a long-standing taboo The news that HRH Prince William is going to visit Israel is to be wholeheartedly welcomed. A long-standing Foreign Office taboo has been broken, only four months after Theresa May’s extremely warm words about Israel at Lancaster House during the celebrat
• Russia’s Meddling In The U.S. Elections The 2016 American presidential election, which has just produced the greatest political upset in living memory, is hard to find precedents for in recent history, but that is not true of the intervention in the American political process by Russia.
• Scrap Medal Readers of The Times (of London) this month were surprised to read the headline “The British Heroes Honoured by Adolf Hitler.” Was some terrible, nationally-humiliating scandal breaking about Britons who were secretly working for the Nazis during World…
• Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past War leaders have always tried to learn the lessons of the past. But deploying history in conflict is a path strewn with pitfalls as well as opportunities, argues Andrew Roberts
• She Was the Best of Us – WSJ
• Stalin’s Greatness? “The Red Army could have defeated Nazi Germany without Allied help,” records The Times of London, “according to two thirds of Russians, who are adopting an increasingly positive view of Joseph Stalin’s wartime leadership despite the enormous casualtie…
• Staring at God by Simon Heffer, review: a brilliant history of the Home Front in the Great War This war has caught us at our worst,” wrote Margot Asquith, the prime minister’s wife, in her diary on October 26 1914, “and now that shrapnel is killing an entire generation, we are left staring at God.” Simon Heffer, for this comprehensive history of…
• Stop this trashing of monuments – and of our past: The Tories seem afraid of condemning it… The Cenotaph, Britain’s memorial in Whitehall to her dead of the two world wars, has been boarded up to protect it from desecration during the demonstrations this weekend. The statues of Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel, Henry Dundas, Earl Haig ……
• Surgical Strike A series of recent controversies have brought to the fore the central question of how much military protocols need to be updated, on both sides of the Atlantic, to accommodate social and political agendas.
• Thatcher’s auction shows we need a presidential library The auction of Margaret Thatcher’s property this week was an undignified spectacle for anyone who admires her legacy — and raises the question of whether prime ministerial artefacts would be better off in dedicated museums along the lines of…
• The Baseless Attempt to Cancel Winston Churchill Woke critics are trying to denigrate the eminent Brit, engaging in falsehoods along the way.
• The best and most extensive exhibition on Napoleon in three decades The Musée de l’Armée at Les Invalides in Paris has a new exhibition that I believe to be the best and most extensive on the Emperor in three decades. Anyone interested in Napoleon Bonaparte, early 19th-century military history and strategy, the Grande Arm
• The Churchill of the Middle East
• The civilised West can’t afford to fall behind in a new age of robot warfare
• The courage on Ukraine’s front line | The Spectator
• The day Prince Charles was told to salute the final lowering of the Union Flag from Edinburgh Castle Friday, September 19, 2014: 8.30am. ‘Well if they think I’m bloody well going to stand there and salute the Union Jack being hauled down the flagpole at Edinburgh Castle,’ the Duke of Edinburgh snorted as he put marmalade on his toast in the breakfast…
• The death of George Blake reveals how little we now respect Western values If we had a robustly self-confident country, we would not find moral equivalence in the betrayals carried out by this evil traitor
• The Decline of American Empire: A Kübler-Ross Cycle Analysis
• The Epic of Canada ll too often Americans have taken Canada for granted — “Our Giant Neighbor to the North” has been voted the magazine headline most likely to make them turn the page — while Britons sometimes also dismiss Canadians as “our colonial cousins” with barely…
• The Establishment Coup Against Brexit The means by which Providence raises a nation to greatness,” Edmund Burke observed, “are the virtues infused into great men.” How lucky Britons were to have people of the virtues of Burke and Winston Churchill when their country needed them. How desola…
• The fact we have not yet decided what to call this last decade is telling Historian and journalist Andrew Roberts introduces our look back at the significant events of the past 10 years.
• The Fear and the Freedom: How The Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe – review A conflict that still casts its shadow over all our lives, says Andrew Roberts
• The French ARE to blame for the chaos in Calais and we can't trust them to do any more than give a Gallic shrug When I die,’ Mary Tudor is reported to have said just before she expired in 1558, ‘you will find the word “Calais” engraved on my heart.’ As her reputation for political competence expires, Home Secretary Theresa May ought to be saying the same thing.
• The German Occupation Of Alderney
• The Great Escaper Incredible tale of how a dapper WWI air ace became the only Hun to escape a British PoW camp…
• The Heavy Toll Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
• The Historical Paths to the Balfour Declaration “For long I have been a convinced Zionist,” said Lord Balfour on July 12, 1920 at a meeting at the Royal Albert Hall in London held by the English Zionist Federation under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschild to celebrate the conferment of the League of ..
• The Italian Navy in “The Churchill Documents,” Volume 19 After the surrender of Italy to the Allies in September 1943, the Italian Fleet was apportioned between the Allied powers and absorbed into their navies.
• The Left hate and fear Dominic Cummings because he understands working-class voters – and they don't The British liberal elite and its media acolytes in full lynch-mob mode is a truly disgusting sight.
• The legacy of inspirational teachers Andrew Roberts, an eminent historian, journalist and broadcaster, addresses the question of what makes a great prep school teacher.
• The Lockdown Files are a historian’s dream
• The Long Conflict: Why the Israeli-Palestinian Question Won’t Be Settled Anytime Soon This is an audio interview.
• The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-1943 by Gabriel Gorodetsky – Review An intriguing Soviet slant on Britain’s wartime elite
• The Moribund EU What is the point of the European Union? Only a few years ago such a question, especially coming from a British Brexiteer such as me, might have been written off as simply provocative rudeness from an ideological foe.
• The most shocking part of Trump's first year: Historian ANDREW ROBERTS says it's not the sleaze, the Russia links or those ridiculous tweets… but that he might even win a second term And still it goes on, the rumbustious pantomime of insult and egotism that first rolled into the White House one year ago, when businessman and reality television star Donald Trump found himself inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States…
• The myth of the Boston Tea Party
• The National Portrait Gallery has never had a proper Wellington. Now it has the chance For some inexplicable reason the National Portrait Gallery, of which I am a trustee, doesn’t have a significant portrait of the Duke of Wellington.
• The new Duke of Westminster on his father's legacy, heroism and inheritance Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, and I are looking towards a magnificent, newly built edifice on the skyline of the Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire border when we meet in May, and he becomes wistful. ‘I wish my father could be here for the open…
• The Puzzle Of Rome’s Lost Legion One of the great mysteries of history has re-emerged this week: the fate of the Roman Ninth Legion (Legio IX Hispana), which seemingly disappeared around AD 108, never to be seen or heard of again.
• The Queen The 91st birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II seems to be a good time to investigate what this remarkable woman means to Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the world, and why.
• The Queen at 90: We’ve won the lottery of monarchy and are so lucky to have her, says Andrew Roberts Professional, dignified and dedicated: through 64 years of great change, the Queen is indeed our ‘national rock’
• The Scourge Of Pandemics The outbreak of Coronavirus has prompted a good deal of interest in the Spanish Influenza that killed so many people at the end of World War One.
• The shadow of 1912: history points to a GOP split The shadow of 1912 hangs heavily over today’s Republican party. The Republicans lost out to the Democrats after Theodore Roosevelt continued to campaign on a ‘Progressive’ ticket although he had been beaten in the primaries
• The slaughter of the Somme battlefield was not a futile sacrifice, writes Andrew Roberts The centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme today will be a sobering and humble acknowledgement of the awful price men paid when they went to fight in the Great War, but it ought to be more than that too.
• The Spy Who Loved Britain The atmosphere in Great Britain in early July 1940 was taut, brittle, nerve-racked. Nazi Germany had crushed France in less than six weeks in May and June, forced the British Expeditionary Force from the European continent at Dunkirk …
• The Upside of Empire
• The US–UK Relationship: Solid As Ever
• The Viceroy with blood on his hands: BBC-backed film whitewashes India's last British ruler Lord Mountbatten – and instead blames Churchill for one million deaths after independence The number who died in the appalling violence following India’s independence and its partition is still disputed, but most historians believe it was a million civilians or more.
• The Wall Street Journal: “It’s Time To Revive The Anglosphere” Writing for The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Roberts explains the logic of migration, trade and foreign policy agreements between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK
• The West that wasn’t by Andrew Roberts
• The West’s shameful betrayal of Israel gives Hamas the chance to kill again
• The Wily Queen Bess She is rightly seen as the most remarkable ruler to have worn a crown between Charlemagne and Napoleon—but not for the usual reasons.
• The woke war against British history must not be allowed to succeed Tearing down the heroes of the past risks creating an atomised society that is more divided than ever
• There’s one ironclad rule in history: the law of unintended consequences The Left-wing rioters who are about to usher in a Donald Trump victory are treading a well-worn path
• Theresa May is alarming traditional Tories like me with a manifesto that would have left Thatcher reeling Theresa May went to Halifax to launch her manifesto on Thursday, a constituency that has voted Labour since 1987 but which will almost certainly go Conservative on June 8.
• Theresa May will rightly take her place as one of the least successful prime ministers in British history The moment when a prime minister announces his or her resignation is always an important one historically, so it is legitimate to consider Theresa May’s legacy now that it is about to pass from the realm of present-day current affairs to that of future…
• This attack on Churchill is appalling – and nonsensical
• This missed opportunity to crush Corbyn has condemned Labour to oblivion No one can say that the catastrophe that has just engulfed the Labour Party with the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn on a thumping 61.8 per cent of the vote – including 59 per cent of full party members – was not entirely self-inflicted.
• Through The Minefield To Victory Somewhere that military history is constantly in the news—or at least in the newspapers—is in the obituaries of old soldiers. With the generation who comprised the generals and colonels from World War II now almost completely gone, …
• Tories didn’t start the culture war, but they have found a way to win it Plans to give the public a say over monuments are a blow to the woke Left’s censorship of our history
• Tories should be sticking up for police against ‘Kill the Bill’ rioters
• Trump vs Clinton is America’s dirtiest election ever – and the poison could infect the whole world This campaign is historic, but for all the wrong reasons – I fear for what America might become over the next for years
• Turing Riddle Solved
• Turkey’s Inglorious Past The centenary of the start of the “Meds Yeghern” (Great Calamity)—the Turkish genocide against the minority Armenian Christian population of the Ottoman Empire—has come at an awkward time for the government of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
• Use your vote to honour the victims of the most murderous creed to besmirch the past century In less than two weeks the British people will have the honour of being able to do something quite remarkable in history – deliver a stinging, unmistakeable rebuke to an evil ideology.
• Vera Lynn's wartime role in lifting morale helped to keep the Nazis at bay As Vera Lynn passes away, Andrew Roberts argues that the singer’s contribution to the national effort should not be underestimated
• Very few PMs achieve great things, but Boris – like Margaret Thatcher – has proved that he's one of them Boris Johnson has sealed his place in British history as a ‘weather-maker’ Prime Minister. Historians tend to separate those premiers who make the political weather
• Walking with Winston in Paris: Churchill adored the City of Light – now retrace his footsteps on a tour of his favourite haunts… as selected by his biographer Give me London, Paris or New York,’ Winston Churchill said in 1937 when contemplating where he could live in the world away from his beloved Chartwell in Kent. Certainly Paris played a hugely important role in his life. He visited the French capital …
• Ware crimes are part of the Russian playbook
• Waterloo 200: It's Britain – not France – that has a Napoleon complex Let’s face it: the Emperor of the French represented the Enlightenment on horseback, not some Hitler-style tyrant.
• We can’t know how Churchill would vote in the referendum, but we do know what he thought about Europe So much has been written and said in the Euro-referendum debate about the views of Sir Winston Churchill – with both sides claiming him as their standard-bearer – that we ought to recall the heartfelt and repeated calls of his youngest daughter Mary…
• We have been warned! John McDonnell is the Marxist who plotted and purged his way to power, the denigrator of a great British hero, and even MORE dangerous than Corbyn, writes ANDREW ROBERTS John McDonnell could not be more wrong in branding Winston Churchill a ‘villain’ over his actions towards the striking miners of Tonypandy in November 1910, but his statement has far more profound implications than merely a long-standing historical …
• We need more Rees-Moggs, to tell the truth about shameless Leftist posturing Unicef’s donation of thousands of pounds to tackle hunger in Britain is a shallow political gesture
• Western leaders' cowardly refusal to condemn Fidel Castro brings shame upon our democracies There is a great sickness at the heart of Western society when its leaders either cannot or will not denounce evil when they see it.
• What Britain Can Learn from Israel – Sapir Journal
• What if Churchill Had Been Prime Minister in 1919? At 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, Winston Churchill was looking out of the window of his Ministry of Munitions, toward Trafalgar Square in London, waiting for the great bell of Big Ben to sound, telling Britons that World War I was finally over…
• What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis
• What the History of Modern War Offers Prime Minister Netanyahu
• What the Marxist Tariq Ali gets wrong about Winston Churchill | The Spectator
• When the moment comes, Boris Johnson should enlist the Queen's help in foiling the Remainers' undemocratic plot Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former foreign secretary, has stated that if Boris Johnson refused to resign as prime minister immediately after losing a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons next month, “he would create the gravest constitutional crisis…
• Where do the royal family and the Sussexes go from here? Princess Diana or Wallis Simpson? The fallout of Harry and Meghan’s mega interview recalls previous palace scandals.
• Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? In the days of American power and glory from the Civil War to World War II, a soldier could win the Congressional Medal of Honor by slaying unconscionable numbers of the enemy without needing also to save any comrades in the process.
• Who Was The Warrior King At Sutton Hoo? The newly-released movie The Dig starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, based on the superb novel of the same name by John Preston, has focused attention on one of the great mysteries of Anglo-Saxon history: who was the great warrior ..
• Why America had to join World War I The centenary of the armistice that ended World War I on Nov. 11 inevitably raises questions about the United States’ involvement in that conflict, which cost the lives of 50,585 Americans and wounded 205,690. SEE ALSO Video length 1 minute 37 secon…
• Why do people keep daily diaries The news that the diaries of the journalist Kenneth Rose are about to be published this autumn has led me to wonder why do people keep daily diaries, saying what they have done every day of their lives? As someone who has been a diarist for over three …
• Why Donald Trump might not be America’s worst president Standing over six foot tall, with a large and unruly shock of hair, the President-Elect saw himself as the champion of the common people against the educated elites, while his enemies – of which he had a very large number – saw him as an unsophisticated..
• Why Remainers are the UK’s answer to the Capitol rioters Andrew Roberts reviews This Sovereign Isle by Robert Tombs
• Why We Must Teach Western Civilization The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred
• Winston Is Back! – Claremont Review of Books
• Winston's Folly Lessons learned from the failure of Gallipoli.
• With its hands tied, the SAS loses Last weekend The Sunday Times exposed allegations of murder by a rogue SAS unit in Afghanistan. But Andrew Roberts argues our special forces deserve protection from scrutiny, as their enemies almost never play by the rules
• Woke Comes To Wales
• Woke want to cancel Churchill but world needs him now more than ever On March 5, 1946 – 75 years ago today – Winston Churchill delivered a speech in the small Midwestern town of Fulton, Missouri, that was fundamentally to alter the way that the world saw itself.
• World-class snob, first-class diarist | Andrew Roberts | The Critic Magazine
• You have only just begun to write a new chapter for the UK, Prime Minister Dear Boris, Hallelujah! The historian in you will have been relishing all the dates that we heard on Thursday night, with constituencies returning Tory MPs that have not done so since 1931, 1922, even 1918.
• 为什么德国有超过190所学校用这对兄妹的名字冠名 汉斯和索菲·朔尔兄妹的七十五年忌日值得纪念。他们以令人难以置信的勇气反抗阿道夫·希特勒和纳粹党，被纳粹送上了断头台。他们牺牲自己的生命去反抗邪恶的故事感人至深，激动人心，全世界的人都应当从中得到启迪。所以他们的故事值得向年轻一代讲述，因为年轻人可能没有听过这对勇气超凡的兄妹的故事。
• 哈里王子大婚的冷知识 ‘Cry God for Harry, England and St George!’ All the elements of Shakespeare’s great battle cry from his play ‘Henry V’ were in evidence at Windsor Castle on 19 May when The Queen’s grandson, Prince Harry of Wales, married the beautiful American actres …
• 天才如何产生效力（原文) Last month I wrote about military leadership in the early part of the history of Mankind, trying to answer the question that was set in my Cambridge University entrance exam in 1981: ‘How can one man lead one hundred?’ This month I would like to bring …
• 奥运会能促进世界和平吗？（原文） The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in South Korea has been an extravaganza of sporting prowess, with millions of people worldwide watching in astonishment the exhibition of sporting endurance and excellence, with superb performances that redefine what …
• 英语为什么前所未有的重要？（原文） English is poised to become the first world-language in the history of Mankind, and it’s largely thanks to China.
• 阴谋论，一种专属于男性的歇斯底里（原文） I was in Washington DC earlier this week, which is awash with rumours of plots and intrigues.