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As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...
WHEN Reform shocked the political establishment by sweeping to victory in a whole bunch of county council elections in May, ...
In his first year in office, Keir Starmer, 62, has had to leverage Britain’s modest authority on the international stage to ...
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It’s a crying shame for the chancellor
Churchill was a prolific weeper and Obama’s propensity to cry in public did him no harm. If only Rachel Reeves were offered ...
The columns of the Stornoway Gazette in June and July 1945 were dominated by coverage of the General Election campaign in the ...
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Symbols of Victory
Soviet soldiers liberated Europe at the cost of their livesThe strategic offensive Operation Bagration played a key role in bringing the ...
For decades, Netanyahu has been warning of the danger posed by Islamists with nuclear weapons and of a new Holocaust. The ...
Media can’t claim independence if a government or public donor is an outlet’s primary or even a major source of funding.
Lost amongst recent news from the Middle East were reports about the auctioning of documents written by WWII Bletchley Park ...
Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.
We read Mein Kampf in its hundredth anniversary year with the wisdom of hindsight but also horror-struck at the Israeli state ...
Let all men know how empty and powerless the power of kings is, for there is none so mighty that he can overrule the law.