From The Archives
Just not cricket
From ‘The bed-rock of war’, The Spectator, 26 August 1916: As a rule in war the bowling has a great advantage over…
Iron birds
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 19 August 1916: The Parliamentary Air Committee having recently inhaled much ozone at…
Iron birds
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 19 August 1916: The Parliamentary Air Committee having recently inhaled much ozone at…
Holding on
From ‘Restless politicians’, The Spectator, 12 August 1916: Even those journals which a few months ago were most zealous for…
Holding on
From ‘Restless politicians’, The Spectator, 12 August 1916: Even those journals which a few months ago were most zealous for…
Entrenched wisdom
From ‘Armour of offence’, The Spectator, 5 August 1916: The soldier must never forget that it is his business to…
Entrenched wisdom
From ‘Armour of offence’, The Spectator, 5 August 1916: The soldier must never forget that it is his business to…
The new Secretary for War
From ‘The military situation’, The Spectator, 29 July 1916: We have a new Secretary for War. Mr Lloyd George, as we all…
The new Secretary for War
From ‘The military situation’, The Spectator, 29 July 1916: We have a new Secretary for War. Mr Lloyd George, as we all…
Over the top
From ‘The Battle of the Somme’, The Spectator, 22 July 1916: What we seldom hear about is what Milton called the ‘raw…
Over the top
From ‘The Battle of the Somme’, The Spectator, 22 July 1916: What we seldom hear about is what Milton called the ‘raw…
Never again
From ‘Terms of peace’, The Spectator, 15 July 1916: As the man in the street might say, ‘The Allies are not…
Never again
From ‘Terms of peace’, The Spectator, 15 July 1916: As the man in the street might say, ‘The Allies are not…
The meaning of the Somme
From ‘News of the week’, The Spectator, 8 July 1916: On the surface of London life there is hardly a ripple,…
The meaning of the Somme
From ‘News of the week’, The Spectator, 8 July 1916: On the surface of London life there is hardly a ripple,…
Preparing for peacetime
From ‘Preparation for peace’, The Spectator, 1 July 1916: All industrial development relies in the last resort upon human energy,…
Preparing for peacetime
From ‘Preparation for peace’, The Spectator, 1 July 1916: All industrial development relies in the last resort upon human energy,…
Who is this again?
From ‘English or British?’, The Spectator, 25 June 1916: We wish that this question of ‘England’ or ‘Britain’ could be settled satisfactorily,…
Who is this again?
From ‘English or British?’, The Spectator, 25 June 1916: We wish that this question of ‘England’ or ‘Britain’ could be settled satisfactorily,…
After the breakthrough
From ‘Verdun’, The Spectator, 16 June 1916: As has been proved again and again in this war, if you are willing to…
After the breakthrough
From ‘Verdun’, The Spectator, 16 June 1916: As has been proved again and again in this war, if you are willing to…
The Kitchener effect
From ‘Lord Kitchener’, The Spectator, 9 June 1916: The central fact in Kitchener’s administration of the War Office is that…
The Kitchener effect
From ‘Lord Kitchener’, The Spectator, 9 June 1916: The central fact in Kitchener’s administration of the War Office is that…
1916: Sorry, President Wilson, but this is not a gentlemanly war
From ‘President Wilson and the Lessons of History’, 2 June 1916: Emphatically it is not a war of what we…
Against armistice
From ‘President Wilson and the Lessons of History’, 2 June 1916: Emphatically it is not a war of what we…
