Dominic Green

Tom Bower is the only celebrity biographer who does his job properly. All his biographies are unauthorized, from his first essay in the form, the life of the Nazi sadist Klaus "Butcher of Lyon" Barbie, to his latest, Betrayal , on Meghan and Harry's campaign of self-enrichment and revenge. On the way, Bower has done the dirty on British politicians (Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown) and been sued by the media magnates Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson, Conrad Black, and also Richard Desmond, who made his money in pornography and then sank to newspaper publishing.

On July 7, a Paris appeal court allowed French nationalist Marine Le Pen to run in the 2027 presidential elections.

The Bundists were secular Jewish socialists who opposed emigration to Palestine in favor of “hereness” in the Russian empire.

Dominic Green Simon Dubnov, a Yiddish-speaking historian born in czarist Russia in 1860, was a diasporist.

This poignant exhibition at the University of Cambridge spotlights work made during or after violent conflict, ranging from World War I ‘trench art’ to artifacts from the current war in Ukraine.

The future of literacy, literature, and liberal democracy T he big book of summer 2026 originated as a Bronze Age oral legend and became a 21st-century movie.

German regulators refused to rate the movie until Elon Musk put it on X for free. Its popularity should be concerning to European elites.

On July 4, the Oxfordshire village of Piddington, population 370 , voted 175-7 to hold a referendum on seceding from the United Kingdom . The Labour

Have you seen The Odyssey Christopher Nolan 's adaptation of Homer's Iron Age blockbuster? I haven't. Have you read it in the Greek original?

On July 20, Andy Burnham became Britain 's seventh prime minister in the last 10 years, its fourth in the last five years, and its second since the Labour Party won the 2024 general elections.