Fascism

Of hearts and heads

16 January 2016 9:00 am

Like most trade unionists in the 1970s and 80s I worked with a fair few communists. Men like Dickie Lawlor,…

The continent in crisis

19 September 2015 8:00 am

Sir Ian Kershaw won his knight’s spurs as a historian with his much acclaimed two-volume biography of Hitler, Hubris and…

Boccaccio and Petrach

Double thinking, double lives

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Jan Morris on the inconsistency and paradox that has characterised Italian thought over the centuries — and the desperate search for certainty

Scapegoat for all of urban life’s ills: Le Corbusier, c.1950

Dedicated follower of fascism?

23 May 2015 9:00 am

The ‘revelations’, 50 years after he drowned, that Le Corbusier was a ‘fascist’ and an anti-Semite are neither fresh nor…

Ezra Pound in the early 1920s

Talking himself into madness

18 October 2014 9:00 am

‘There are the Alps. What is there to say about them?/ They don’t make sense. Fatal glaciers, crags cranks climb,…

Hitler’s Valkyrie

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Unity Mitford at 100

How to survive totalitarianism

14 June 2014 8:00 am

When this extraordinary book was about to come out in French four years ago its author was told by his…

Neither saint nor sage

26 October 2013 9:00 am

The inventor of ‘doublethink’ was consistently inconsistent  in his own political views, says A.N. Wilson. And no fun at all