Hywel Williams
Articles by Hywel Williams
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Books
Ancient and modern
- 28 February 2008
- 2 comments
Empire of the Mind: a History of Iran
Michael Axworthy C Hurst & Co, 256pp, £20
Books
Times of turmoil
- 25 October 2007
Borrowed Time: the Story of Britain Between the Wars
Roy Hattersley Little, Brown, 480pp, £20
Books
The people's party?
- 14 June 2007
Comrades: A World History of Communism
Robert Service Macmillan, 624pp, £25
Books
A very English affair
- 02 October 2006
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 736pp, £25
ISBN 0297850768
From London to Canberra and Washington, DC, anglophone culture dominated the 20th century. Hywel Williams celebrates a provocative history of conquest and empire
Books
Cross-Channel
- 29 May 2006
That Sweet Enemy: the French and the British from the Sun King to the present
Isabelle and Robert Tombs William Heinemann, 780pp, £25
ISBN 0434008672
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Power elites dislike being identified: it threatens their covert authority'
- 01 May 2006
Britain's secretive rulers consist of an incompetent executive class, a meaningless political class and a degraded professional class. Hywel Williams proposes a historical explanation
Arts & Culture
Easy peasy Japanesy
- 18 June 2001
The Japanese past is best known in the west for its periods of withdrawal. Now, despite economic instability, Hywel Williams finds a country seeking out the world with a lavish celebration of its culture
Politics
All hail the off-the-peg gentleman
- 25 December 2000
NS Christmas - The true English gent is dead. Now we make do with pale imitations, writesHywel Williams
Society
The New Statesman Profile - Jonathon Porritt
- 06 November 2000
He is our tree hugger in chief, a self-righteous prophet who now finds himself at the centre of things. Jonathon Porritt profiled
Politics
Schools that teach children to lie
- 09 October 2000
Hywel Williams, a former master at Rugby, marvels at the hypocrisies, ancient and modern, that continue to sustain the English public schools
