Indian Summers: episode-by-episodeIndian SummersReviewThe plot holes may have scuppered the first series, but Indian Summers is back with more pace, more insurrection – and the obligatory hillside cocktails
March 1935. Three years have passed. As tensions rise across the subcontinent, the British government prepares a new deal for India. “We need to find the author of this scandal sheet.” “Sir, I will do everything in my power.” Here we go . Read More...
The long read: For decades, a gang of Chicago police tortured and forced confessions from people in custody. Now, in a historic move, the city is teaching this shameful history in schools – but not everyone thinks it should Published: 8 Mar 2019 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKiipLOquMRop56slad6pHnBmqKeqg%3D%3D
BooksReviewEyewitness accounts of Kristallnacht collected by an anti-Nazi heroThis riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews of the terrible night of 9 November 1938, when, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, bands of stormtroopers all over Germany and Austria burned down more than 1,000 synagogues and smashed up some 7,500 Jewish-owned shops. The shards of shop windows that littered the streets on the morning of 10 November led Berliners, with typically bitter humour, to dub the events of the previous hours the " Read More...