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Culture
The errors and omissions of Winston Churchill film Darkest Hour
The movie looks terrific and has an air of authenticity, yet it plays fast and loose with the truth.

By Adrian Smith
19 January
Culture
I worked as a teacher – so I can tell you how regressive grammar schools are
The grammars and "comprehensives" of Kent make for an unequal system. So why does Theresa May consider the county a model for the future?

By Adrian Smith
25 September
Culture
Keith Douglas: soldier-poet of the desert and the Second World War
In exposing the unchivalric side of WWII, Keith Douglas was the heir to Siegfried Sassoon.

By Adrian Smith
06 June
Culture
What would Britain look like if Hitler had been our friend?
In Sansom’s humbled nation, the Labour leadership had scorned Hitler’s supposedly generous treatment of Britain and her empire, denouncing pro-appeasement backbenchers prepared to split the parliamentary party after it rejected Halifax’s rationale for mak
By Adrian Smith
21 November
Culture
Norman Mackenzie: Editor, teacher, writer . . . spy?
Remembering the former NS staffer, who died on 18 June.
By Adrian Smith
28 June
Culture
The secret life of Clifford Sharp
Meet the first editor of the New Statesman.
By Adrian Smith
03 April

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