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, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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