According to a survey by a London bookshop – and although no statistician, I know an unrepresentative sample when I see one – ...
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars, by Simon Heffer. Penguin Random House, London, 2023, 948 pp. Sing As We Go (the title of a popular film by Gracie Fields, one of England’s most popular stars ...
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, ...
On Rex Whistler: The Artist and His Patrons by Nikki Frater.
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 ...
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