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Kippered / My doomed run for parliament

I had always been interested in politics but had not done anything practical until the rise of Nigel Farage’s Ukip. He was proving a thorn in the...

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Labour purges are nothing new

Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to prove to voters that Labour has changed, by purging the party’s far left, may look like cruel contemporary...

30.05.2024 20

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The sad decline of the Evening Standard

It’s always a sad day for journalists when a newspaper goes to the great printing room in the sky. But for all Londoners, the death of the...

30.05.2024 20

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It’s time for Nigel Farage to get off the fence

Rishi Sunak’s snap summer election means that Nigel Farage faces a decisive moment. For months if not years, Farage has held back from taking a role...

23.05.2024 20

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Guns, drugs and beatings – I loved boarding school

My son and various well-meaning friends have been advising me to abandon writing history books and cash in on the trend for boarding school misery...

22.05.2024 40

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Slovakia is united after the assassination attempt on Fico. It won’t last

Somewhat unfairly, Slovakia is often overlooked and ignored as a quiet and peaceful backwater in the often turbulent turmoil of east European...

16.05.2024 40

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Is Dominic Cummings’ ‘start up party’ a non-starter?

We haven’t heard much from Dominic Cummings since he walked out of No. 10 Downing Street in November 2020. Now the cerebral Vote Leave mastermind...

10.05.2024 30

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My strange hobby / A life in search of death

As George Orwell astutely observed, England is a nation of hobbyists – and their sometimes eccentric private pursuits are one of the reasons that...

07.05.2024 20

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Why Portugal’s coup worked

Fifty years ago today, on 25 April 1974, Europe was stunned by an almost bloodless military coup that removed the continent’s most durable...

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Europe’s coffee houses are in trouble

There’s bad news for coffee fans: the price of your favourite beverage – which has already rocketed in recent years – is about to soar. A...

18.04.2024 10

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Could Reform push the Tories into extinction?

For the third time in recent years a party created by Nigel Farage is threatening the Tory party’s fading hopes of re-election. But this time the...

03.04.2024 20

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Can the use of torture ever be justified?

The court appearance of the four men accused by Russia of carrying out the Moscow massacre of 137 innocent concert goers at the Crocus City Hall venue...

26.03.2024 10

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The Great Escape was a great disaster

Anyone for whom a screening of the film The Great Escape is an annual Christmas tradition will know how strong a hold the myth of that escapade holds...

22.03.2024 4

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The Garrick / In defence of private members’ clubs

The members list of the men-only Garrick Club in London’s West End has remained a closely-guarded secret – until now. King Charles, Richard Moore,...

19.03.2024 20

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Ides of March / The enduring lesson of Julius Caesar’s assassination

In Rome today a group of ancient history enthusiasts will drape themselves in togas and re-enact that most infamous act of political murder: the...

15.03.2024 30

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Meet Portugal’s new hard-right kingmakers

Portugal goes to the polls this weekend for parliamentary elections and it looks likely to become the latest European country in which a populist hard...

08.03.2024 20

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Germany is the West’s weakest link against Putin

Two massive security scandals this weekend have given a shot in the arm to Putin’s war on Ukraine. Yet again they have exposed Chancellor Olaf...

04.03.2024 30

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David Cameron and the long history of the posh Arabist

Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of Britain’s troubled history in the Middle East will be unsurprised by Lord Cameron’s increasingly...

17.02.2024 20

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King Charles is not the first royal to suffer from cancer

As witness the great ages achieved by King Charles’ mother, the Queen (96), and maternal grandmother, the Queen mother (101), the modern British...

06.02.2024 9

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Why have Germany’s spies opened a file on their old chief?

It’s not often that an ex-spymaster is spied upon by his former colleagues. But just that has happened in Germany, where Hans-Georg Maassen, the...

02.02.2024 10

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Books / Conrad Black adheres firmly to the ‘great man’ view of history

George Orwell has a story that when Sir Walter Raleigh published the first volume of his projected history of the world while in prison, he witnessed...

31.01.2024 20

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What explains the rise of Austria’s Freedom Party?

We don’t hear much about Austrian politics in Britain, which is not perhaps surprising since the landlocked Central European republic of some nine...

29.01.2024 9

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The thankless life of a Post Office mistress

One of the fascinating aspects of the Horizon Post Office scandal is the way that the sub-post masters and mistresses who were victims of the bungling...

15.01.2024 5

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When will Nigel Farage get off the fence?

Nigel Farage’s indecision continues. Despite being hyped in advance as a major unveiling of the rebel party’s programme, Reform UK’s press...

04.01.2024 10

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