According to a survey by a London bookshop – and although no statistician, I know an unrepresentative sample when I see one – ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...