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Nigel Jones

Germans – not Brits – are the ones who keep mentioning the war

Nigel Jones 3 February 2018 10:00

The German ambassador, Peter Ammon, leaves Britain this month and retires after a distinguished diplomatic career as Berlin’s man in…

Sex scandals ain’t wot they used to be

Nigel Jones 9 December 2017 8:00

The death last week of Christine Keeler, a central player in the Profumo scandal which helped bring about the end…

The poet who welcomed war

Nigel Jones 23 April 2014 14:52

Today, 23 April, the world celebrates the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s presumed birth (and marks with less joy the…

Is Wilfred Owen’s poetry any good?

Nigel Jones 18 March 2014 14:04

Wilfred Owen, the poet whose work epitomises the horror of the First World War for most people in modern Britain,…

It’s not just the Tories who ought to fear Ukip – Labour and the Lib Dems should too

Nigel Jones 29 September 2013 12:51

Listen! The sound you hear in the damp Tory grassroots as they gather in Manchester for the party conference this…

Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club, by Howard Sounes – review

Nigel Jones 12 June 2013 9:30

As an early dedicated fan of the Doors, who ran away from boarding school just so that I could catch my…

Ceremonies of Bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair by J. Robert Maguire – review

Nigel Jones 24 April 2013 9:36

The life of Oscar Wilde is so wearily familiar that we assume that there is nothing new to think or…

Atlas of History’s Greatest Military Victories, by Jeremy Harwood – review

Nigel Jones 27 March 2013 9:39

Final proof – if any were needed – that Englishmen are not made of the same mettle as their rough,…

A tale of two colonels

Nigel Jones 15 March 2013 9:05

This week, March 11th, marks the 50th anniversary of the shooting by firing squad near Paris of the last person…

Richard III should be reburied under Leicester council’s car park

Nigel Jones 5 February 2013 14:00

Anyone who watched last night’s Channel 4 Documentary Richard III: The King Under the Car Park will need no reminding…

The Fuhrer was not amused

Nigel Jones 6 November 2012 11:00

‘The German sense of humour,’ Mark Twain famously observed, ‘Is no laughing matter.’ Although many Greeks, stretched on the Euro’s…

Let’s not be beastly to the Germans

Nigel Jones 27 September 2012 15:11

The question of how Europe stumbled into the horrific abyss of  the First World War, the catastrophe which The Economist…

Darkness visible

Nigel Jones 10 April 2012 10:13

We all know the names Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belsen, and Dachau. But what about Pechora, Vorkuta, Kolyma and Norilsk?  Why are…

Uneasy allies: de Gaulle and Churchill 1940-44

Nigel Jones 7 March 2012 8:53

Anyone wishing to understand the tortuous, love-hate relationship between David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy today will find all they need…

Missing the point

Nigel Jones 1 February 2012 9:21

The reviewer of Alain de Botton’s books runs a grave risk. For behold what happened to the New York Times…

At the going down of the sun

Nigel Jones 11 November 2011 11:00

Vernon Scannell, a poet who fought in North Africa in the Second World War, observed in his poem ‘The Great…

Bonfire boys

Nigel Jones 5 November 2011 14:33

We so enjoyed Nigel Jones’s last contribution to Coffee House that we thought we’d invite him back to describe the…

The building of our history

Nigel Jones 31 October 2011 16:24

Athens, for all its current woes, still has the Parthenon. Rome has the Colosseum, Paris the Louvre, Berlin the Reichstag,…

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