He was at school with Anthony Powell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, a near-contemporary of Graham Greene, and admired by all of them. Yet he wrote nothing after 1952, despite not dying until 1973 at ...

Simon Heffer’s “dirty dozen” of overrated cultural phenomena was bound to ruffle some feathers among readers – his criticism of Mozart, Banksy and the Barbican yielded more than 1,300 comments. Here, ...

In Sing As We Go, a brilliant close to his series on British history from Victoria’s accession in 1837 to the outbreak (for Britain) of World War II in 1939, Simon Heffer provides a first-rate history ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Heffer’s account of the era is not that of Richard Overy’s somewhat fatuous The Morbid Age: Britain and the ...

"The European ideal," writes The Telegraph's Simon Heffer, "was about subjugating the national interest, often by less than democratic means, to ensure that something called 'Europe' functioned as a ...

On Ambivalent Nation: How Britain Imagined the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War), by Hugh Dubrulle.