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Colin Freeman

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My debt to Ann Widdecombe

Somewhere at the bottom of the Fleet Street food chain is the hapless junior reporter known as the ‘milk bottle’. So-called because most of their...

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Colin Freeman

Immigration / Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system

As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of its asylum system....

22.03.2026 30

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Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system

As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of its asylum system....

22.03.2026 30

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Ukraine has entered the grey zone

11.02.2026 30

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The dark side of Danish hygge

17.11.2025 20

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The Brits who fought in Ukraine deserve to be remembered

05.10.2025 20

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Stabbed in the back / Ukraine’s Foreign Legion was doomed from the start

05.09.2025 20

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Stabbed in the back / Ukraine’s Foreign Legion was doomed from the start

05.09.2025 40

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Ritual revival / Why the young worship folk horror

03.09.2025 30

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My Fredrick Forsyth connection

14.06.2025 20

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Dust up / What Warfare gets wrong about Iraq

29.04.2025 20

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Colin Freeman