Comment - Columnists - Ben McIntyre en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:33:42 GMT Newspapers Comment - Columnists - Ben McIntyre 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif From the moment that he found fame, he was slowly dying before the public eye Ben Macintyre Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:36 GMT 2009-06-26T11:12:51Z Pop stars die young. They die from bullet, self-abuse or accident. Even when they die old, they still seem to be young. The green cow: it's not emission impossible Ben Macintyre Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:33 GMT 2009-06-10T10:07:13Z Dangerous things, cows. Garbo, the secret agent from Hendon Ben Macintyre Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:33 GMT 2009-06-11T05:43:51Z This weekend the extraordinary feat of the D-Day landings will be commemorated, with due recognition for the raw physical courage and logistical skill required to land 160,000 soldiers on the beaches of Normandy. But there is one actor in the D-Day epic who is unlikely to receive the credit he deserves, even though without him the effort might well have failed. He was not a soldier. As the citizen of a neutral country, he could have sat out the war. His was not a battle of bombs and guns, but of imagination and words. He spent most of the war in a house around the corner from Hendon Central Tube station. We've never needed history more than now Ben Macintyre Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:39 GMT 2009-05-27T08:08:38Z A multiple choice question. The study of history has declined in schools over the past years. This is: Join the rest of us, you dishonourable members Ben Macintyre Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:22 GMT 2009-05-21T10:18:42Z Comment Central: A recall mechanism to fire bad MPs?