George Bernard Shaw’s fight for press freedom

As Donald Trump attacks the free press, a new study of Shaw’s journalism shows he risked all by questioning government during WWI, a role he saw as democracy’s bedrock


To stand with the Empire

John Redmond’s eve of war speech in the House of Commons turned into a gamble gone wrong, rather than a masterstroke



A duty to the French?

During the long month of July, the British public enjoyed summer, listening occasionally to ever more strident tones from the Continent. For a while, however, they mostly did not choose to do so


France holds its fire in the blame game

For fear of reviving old hostilities, one French version of responsibility for it has the war ‘appearing as a sort of natural disaster that no one wanted – a catastrophe in which all are victims and none are responsible’





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