When will Ronald Reagan get the recognition he deserves?
Max Boot’s contention that Reagan was a lightweight pragmatist who played little part in reviving America or winning the Cold War is absurdly revisionist
Henry Kissinger saved us from a much worse world
‘If I give you a copy of my book,’ I said to Henry Kissinger two months ago, ‘which chapter will…
Why are House of Lords clerics so anti-Tory?
The left-wing bias of the House of Lords bishops
My hope for Ukraine
Kyiv When Winston Churchill visited bomb sites during the Blitz, the most common sentiment he heard was, ‘We…
The Lockdown Files are a historian’s dream
Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages will be a historical goldmine
Farewell to arms: Britain’s depleted military
The hollowing out of the British Army
The monarchy will survive Diana's death (1997)
Today marks 25 years since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Andrew Roberts wrote The Spectator’s cover story that…
The triumph of the National Army Museum
Five years ago this month I wrote an article in The Spectator denouncing the National Army Museum after its £24…
What the Marxist Tariq Ali gets wrong about Winston Churchill
Tariq Ali, the Marxist writer and activist, believes that a ‘Churchill cult’ is ‘drowning all serious debate’ about the wartime…
The courage on Ukraine’s front line
Central to the question of whether or not Ukraine can survive as an independent state is that of re-supply, not…
In defence of King George III
I’m on a book tour which involves 65 speeches in 60 days in Britain, Washington, Philadelphia, Virginia, Mexico, California and…
Churchill as villain – but is this a character assassination too far?
Revisionist biographies of Churchill are nothing new but this one lays the hostility and contempt on with a trowel, says Andrew Roberts
History may hold the secrets of statecraft – but not the secrets of business leadership
‘How can one person lead one hundred?’ That was one of the questions in my Cambridge entrance exams back in…
Might George W. Bush be the last Republican president in American history?
John McDonnell might think Churchill a villain, but he’s beloved in America. I’ve just returned from a ten-week, 18-state, 27-city,…
The day I signed a book ‘Adolf Roberts’
I’m giving 93 speeches over the next four months to promote my new book, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, but I…
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…
Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain
Dr Felix Klos is an extremely personable, highly intelligent American-Dutch historian who has undertaken much archival research, worked extremely hard…
Andrew Roberts’s guide to Churchill on screen
Gary Oldman has joined a long list of actors who have portrayed Winston Churchill — no fewer than 35 of…
David Cameron’s place in the premier league of Tory history
Where will David Cameron rank among Tory prime ministers?
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…
Henry Kissinger interview: ‘I don’t see the wisdom there once was’
Henry Kissinger on statesmanship from Richelieu to Obama
From jailbird to social butterfly – the return of Conrad Black
The former proprietor of this magazine, Conrad Black, is in London at the moment with his gorgeous wife Barbara, and…
Save our Van Dyck!
The Flemish artist’s final self-portrait was vital to British art. We’d be philistines to let it leave the country
