Francis Phillips, Author at MercatorNet

Winston Churchill: great as a statesman, disastrous as a father

When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound, sadness and fury, shown here in all its dramatic stages.

by Francis Phillips May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 / 5 mins /

Re-examining the Shroud of Turin

by Francis Phillips May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 / 4 mins /

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

by Francis Phillips Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021 / 7 mins /

Discovering the beauty of music in harsh environs

by Francis Phillips Mar 24, 2021Mar 26, 2021 / 4 mins /

Remembering a ‘golden age’ when great writers entertained ordinary people

by Francis Phillips Feb 18, 2021Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /

Apostle to the lepers, poet in the wilderness: John Bradburne

by Francis Phillips Feb 11, 2021Feb 23, 2021 / 3 mins /

The unhappy son of a ‘keen’ Nazi fails to clear his father’s name

by Francis Phillips Jan 14, 2021Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /

A last generous act from a high achiever

by Francis Phillips Dec 9, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /

The dangerous paranoid nonsense of conspiracy theories

by Francis Phillips Nov 13, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 5 mins /

Review: ‘The Colour of the Sky After Rain’

by Francis Phillips Nov 2, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /

Delving into the depths of Dickens

by Francis Phillips Sep 24, 2020Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /

Tillotson: the British mandarin class before the 1960s deluge

by Francis Phillips May 16, 2019Feb 23, 2021 / 3 mins /

‘Tolkien’: The early life of a creative genius on the big screen

by Francis Phillips May 3, 2019Feb 23, 2021 / 3 mins /

‘Detainment’: should a film about two boy murderers have been made?

by Francis Phillips Jan 31, 2019Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /

What’s in a name? The Nazi taint in ‘Asperger’s syndrome’

by Francis Phillips Oct 18, 2018Feb 23, 2021 / 4 mins /