Rumour and havoc

THE INSIDE STORY

Donald Trump describes the enemy as “global financial powers”. For Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, they’re “international speculators” with hidden faces. For Matthew Goodwin, national populism’s chief British

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with

How Whitehall and Westminster planned for a new world order

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am