Alan Allport

Alan Allport is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Syracuse University. His latest book, Advance Britannia: How the Second World War was Won: 1942-1945, is out now

No, Elon Musk: we Brits aren’t hobbits

‘When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realise the horrors that take place far away,’ Elon Musk wrote on X in response to the news of the fatal stabbing of Wayne Broadhurst in Uxbridge. ‘They were able to live their lives in peace and