Jon Snow
On a cold January day in 1965, I joined the crowds in Oxford as Churchill’s funeral train passed. Though we never exchanged a word, we were drawn together in one signal act of gratitude.
Alex Thomson
Nobody can turn kitsch into culture like the British establishment – but the re-run of Winston Churchill’s funeral was something really rather weird.
Jonathan Rugman
This week sees the opening of a film about codebreaker Alan Turing’s work at Bletchley Park. Would there be room for him in today’s MI6? Former spy chief John Scarlett thinks so.
It is astonishing that no other audio recording of Guy Burgess seems to exist anywhere else in the world, even though Burgess worked for the BBC for more than five years.
Jon Snow
Seventy years ago today at 11am in the morning, prime minister Neville Chamberlain told the nation that Britain was at war with Germany. Last night I walked through the rainswept darkened streets in Whitehall to the corner of the Treasury building overlooking a very bedraggled St James’s Park.
MALAKAND, PAKISTAN – In Pakistan they have have a great sense of the continuity of history. These days, local government officials are called district coordination officers or DCOs rather than political agents, but when I visited Malakand yesterday I noted that the sign on the gate still read “Political Agent’s Residence” as it must have…