Oswald Mosley
Men in black
Martin McNamara, the writer of Mosley Must Fall, a play on Radio 4 this week, must have had a jolt…
The enemy within
It’s easy to dismiss the fascistic ideologues who populate Graham Macklin’s book as reactionary cranks of no significance. It’s also…
A solid costume drama but Dame Helen has been miscast: Catherine the Great reviewed
It’s possibly not a great sign of a Britain at ease with itself that the historical character most likely to…
Shades of the Mitfords: After the Party, by Cressida Connolly, reviewed
At the beginning of After the Party, Phyllis Forrester tells us she was in prison. While inside, her hair turned…
Of hearts and heads
Like most trade unionists in the 1970s and 80s I worked with a fair few communists. Men like Dickie Lawlor,…
Family divisions
The geological title of this unhappy memoir is an apt metaphor for fissures in the relationships between individuals of David…
The raffish toff with a winning Formula
Max Mosley’s autobiography has been much anticipated: by the motor racing world, by the writers and readers of tabloid newspapers,…
High life
When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…
‘You are always close to me’
Hitler’s adoring notes to Unity Mitford – and her family’s campaign to stop my book
The occasional ex-fascist is the least of the BBC’s problems
Duncan Weldon’s past – as a Labour adviser and elsewhere – doesn’t affect his ability to do the job
Shalom, Santa
What it takes to be Father Christmas in diverse north London
