Adolf Hitler's defeat didn't end prejudice against Jews in Germany or any other country. But the Third Reich did, in Mark Mazower's judgment, discredit antisemitism as a positive programme for decades to come. It is an arresting turn of phrase that makes reckoning with the Holocaust after the second world war sound more like a trend in public policy than a moral imperative.
Sir Keir Starmer's recent benefit cuts could adversely affect around 800,000 legitimate disability claimants, raising concerns about the political fallout similar to pension cuts.