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My pilgrimage on the Western Front Way
The history of the world in bloodshed and megalomania
Trump’s bumpy road back to the White House
King Charles III’s love of classical music
What Liz Truss got right
Kamala’s blagging it
I dropped a morphine capsule in my Moscow Mule
The ultimate American comfort food: how to make meatloaf
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Keir Starmer’s Pragmatic Leadership and Post-Election Challenges
Keir Starmer: The New Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Politics in Europe: A Complex and Evolving Landscape with Keir Starmer
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The timeless beauty of Shropshire’s canals
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Gen-Z mean girls are aggressive and progressive
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School portraits: snapshots of four notable schools
From Spectator LifeElstree, Berkshire Elstree – which educates boys and girls from three to 13 – is nestled in 150 acres of stunning countryside near Newbury in Berkshire. The school, which celebrated its 175th anniversary last year, says that its aim is two-fold: ‘to find out how a child is intelligent rather than how intelligent a child
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Ed Miliband’s empty energy promise
Blowin’ in the wind
Though not quite up there with history’s great political texts, Ed Miliband’s letter this week to the director of the ESO, which runs Britain’s national grid, is a rather important document. It reveals – or confirms – that Labour has committed itself to decarbonising Britain’s electricity system by 2030 without really having any idea of
Blowin’ in the wind
Though not quite up there with history’s great political texts, Ed Miliband’s letter this week to the director of the ESO, which runs Britain’s national grid, is a rather important document. It reveals – or confirms – that Labour has committed itself to decarbonising Britain’s electricity system by 2030 without really having any idea of
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Nordic dream or nightmare?: The Mark, by Frida Isberg, reviewed
From the magazineImagine a society, a high-minded psychologist tells his curmudgeonly father, ‘in which people are like cars. They have to go in for inspection once a year’ in order to assess their emotional fitness for the shared highway of life. As for the ‘psychopathic percentage’ whose ‘moral disorders’ lead them to fail this spiritual MoT, never
What prompted Vivien Leigh’s dark journey into madness?
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Why are the sailors who first braved the Atlantic so often ignored?
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A world history of morality is maddeningly optimistic
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Never pour scorn on Croydon
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More about my mother: Elaine, by Will Self, reviewed
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We’ll never know what treasures the Tudor Reformation robbed us of
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