Robert Harris: “Great politicians are like novelists”
The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.
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On the “war kitsch” of All Quiet On The Western Front
Edward Berger’s film of the novel has been lauded across the world. But in Germany it has met with negative…
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From the NS archive: Back to all that
11 January 1958: Robert Graves and the writing of the two world wars.
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Wittgenstein at war
The philosopher’s First World War notebooks reveal a soul in torment, but was fighting on the front line really the…
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The forgotten politics of personal sacrifice
For the first time in decades, Western politicians are asking people to forfeit for the greater good – and are…
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From the NS archive: The autumn climax
9 September 1916: The state of play on the First World War’s various fronts as the armies prepare for winter.
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