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Boris Johnson’s tenure as PM: Nearly level with Chamberlain but behind May

Mr Johnson has already outrun Gordon Brown.

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022

Are we learning the wrong lessons from history?

Can historians influence government policy? Should they? And, if so, what kinds of historical knowledge should they produce?

The Conversation · Jul 3, 2022

Andreas Kluth: Merkel will enter history as the Neville Chamberlain of our time

There she was again, six months after exiting the German chancellery. Relaxed but pensive after long walks on blustering Baltic shores listening to "Macbeth" on audiobook, Angela Merkel had so much on her mind, so much she wanted to explain for posterity. But she didn’t come to offer apologies or…

Tribune News Service · Jun 9, 2022

Surrendering land is not the same as defeat – if a stronger Ukraine emerges from the ruins

At the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Putin will doubtless claim Russian dominance. But what would victory now look like for Zelenskiy?

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022

My Park Slope Food Coop conspiracy blues

It's easy to fall into conspiratorial thinking, as I learned when my peers thought I had much more power than I did

Salon · Apr 23, 2022

Lie, deny and move on – how much longer will the Johnson mantra plague British politics?

Partygate, bullying ministers, groping MPs and insider lobbying: the Tories have polluted our entire system of government, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2022

On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights

The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas​​, ​Stanley Tucci’s​ ​​charisma​​ and his current favourite cookbook

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022

Abandoned hotel gutted by fire that killed owner's wife is like 'world without humans'

Bontddu Hall was used as one of the grandest hotels in Wales until 2004, with guests including Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Richard Burton and Sean Connery

Daily Mirror · Mar 20, 2022

Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power

David Rintoul is the authoritative narrator of this thriller about the negotiations between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the leadup to the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2022

Munich – The Edge of War: women in historical films are too often unrealistic

In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia so in a bid to avoid war the Four Powers Agreement was signed and Czechoslovakia would surrender its border regions and defences. British…

The Conversation · Jan 21, 2022