On May 10, 80 years ago, Winston Churchill became prime minister of Britain. Germany had already become the dominant power…
England in the 1640s was shaking apart along many fault lines. The royalists, known as the Cavaliers, fought with King…
Asked what would determine the course of his government, English prime minister Harold Macmillan (1957–63) answered, “Events, dear boy, events.”…
Amid the national conversation — a silly, fashionable term except it sounds like the yak-yaks it mostly is — I…
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who lives at the edge of Appalachia ends his every email with…
How fares the average Brexiteer, with less than a week standing between Britain’s independence from the European Union? Euphoric? Or…
We are living under a presidential administration that has made a stunning turnaround from Obama’s foreign policy, which relegated Britain…
A British politician who lived by his pen, enjoyed a chequered reputation attracting supporters and detractors, warned of an existential…
Washington I have been reading a most perspicacious book by my friend Andrew Roberts. It is just out, Churchill: Walking…
