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£335,000 for VC pilot's medals

19.11.09
Six medals awarded to a Second World War pilot, including a Victoria Cross, sold for a record £335,100... more

Our writers are allowed to pick a pocket or two

13.11.09
You can lay many faults at the door of Sir Andrew Motion but plagiarism is not among them... more

David Cameron rounds on MP for Hitler expenses jibe

02.11.09
Latest: Tory backbencher ordered by David Cameron to retract 'ludicrous' claims that MPs' treatment in the expenses scandal compares to the plight of Jews in Nazi Germany... more

Blair's think tank airbrushed link between crime and immigrants

27.10.09
Possible links between mass immigration and some crimes were censored from a keynote government report, the Standard can reveal... more

Judgement Day is teasing the truth out of tragedy

11.09.09
Although this is not a studiously political piece, Judgement Day is obliquely concerned with fascism... more

Christopher Hampton translates the big questions

26.08.09
Written from inside Nazi Germany, Ödön von Horváth’s still underrated plays raise the big questions about guilt and conscience, says his translator Christopher Hampton.... more

Munich is a Bavarian rhapsody

07.08.09
Wench shirts, grand boulevards and metres of German sausage; Munich in summertime is a heaven... more

Music and Mussolini

05.08.09
With three pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian dictator’s favourite composer, receiving their Proms premieres, William Ward examines the cultural legacy of fascism.... more

Sleep Furiously shows beauty of Wales

29.05.09
Sleep Furiously, slow and watchful journey around Dylan Thomas country, makes the best British documentary for a decade. ... more

Musicians dance to the Nazis’ tune in Taking Sides

28.05.09
Michael Pennington shines in Taking Sides and Collaboration - sophisticated dramas from Ronald Harwood.... more

Time to face the Nazi music

22.04.09
Two plays by Ronald Harwood re-examine the moral responsibility of the musicians who danced to Hitler’s tune... more

Bishop 'sorry' for comments on Holocaust bishop says sorry

27.02.09
A British Catholic bishop who caused uproar by denying the scale of the Holocaust has apologised for his views after widespread condemnation... more

Here comes Big Brother Britain – now stand up and fight for liberty

26.02.09
This week the Government publishes its proposals for the giant computer bank to monitor our lives. But could this be the moment the public finally says ‘no’ to the surveillance state?... more

Boss says: That is snow excuse to miss work

05.02.09
TIMES are tough at Merton council. It’s ordered council employees who weren’t able to make it into work because of the snow, to account for the time from their annual leave.... more

Germany's artists in exile

20.01.09
Work made in Britain by artists who fled the Nazis has gone on show in London... more

Mendelssohn, the lost master

18.12.08
In a bumper year for anniversaries, a composer once judged equal to Beethoven and Bach deserves celebration... more

Kate's double date on road to Oscars

16.12.08
Kate Winslet arrived at the world premiere of the film the critics are hailing as her best chance yet for an Oscar ... more

Afghanistan ‘like a world war’

11.11.08
John Hutton compared the Afghanistan campaign to the two World Wars as he paved the way to deploy more British troops against the Taliban... more

Whitewashed look at the White House

24.10.08
Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic is sly, old-fashioned melodrama. It works as entertainment but as history, W deserves an F, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more

Inner fascists found in The Wave

18.09.08
The Wave, telling the story of a school class that is transformed into a mini-dictatorship, is a strong film but in the end a rather obvious one.... more

Miss Behave is not for the faint hearted

04.08.08
Three cautious cheers then for the Roundhouse for staging a month-long variety show, which is very much at the fetish end of the scale.... more

The 'Aryan' Hitler sculpture causing a furore over sale

16.05.08
For sale - neo-classical sculpture, one careful owner, Adolf Hitler...... more

Shameful echoes in Lord Coe's defence of Olympic hypocrisy

07.04.08
The Beijing Olympics, Grand National, Premiership and FA Cup - Matthew Norman has his say... more

Seductive Soviet propaganda

03.03.08
Under conductor Xian Zhang, the London Symphony Orchestra enjoyed upstaging Sergei Eisenstein's film, in their presentation of Alexander Nevsky.... more

Say it with a DVD this Christmas

20.12.07
Whether it's Bond, Borat or a seasonal classic, there's a wealth of choice for when the TV schedules let you down.... more

Katharina's battle for Wagner's legacy

26.07.07
Opening the Bayreuth Festival, Die Meirstersinger von Nurnberg is one of the most problematic of all Wagner's works to stage.... more

The untold story of the lawyer who defends terrorists

24.05.07
Barbet Schroeder tells how he has turned the life of Jacques Vergès, lawyer to terrorists and war criminals, into one of the most important and powerful documentaries for 40 years.... more

Pacifism with a punch

25.04.07
The second double-bill of the Young Vic's Big Brecht Fest is an uneven match. Orla O'Loughlin's How Much Is Your Iron? provides all the value, while Senora Carrar's Rifles is rather dull.... more

Family misfortunes

05.04.07
Rory Bremner seems to have relished his move from politics, translating to the stage with breezy farce and a generous dollop of cynical social satire in this Brecht double bill.... more

The best fun on the Fringe

14.08.06
A story brimming with mad ideas and ridiculous coincidences, Improbable Frequency melds song and dance seamlessly with absurdist theatre in a production that fizzes with energy.... more

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