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The Disunited Kingdom, June 2016

Here I shall be posting some of the better articles I’ve read on the ongoing British nightmare that David Cameron has bequeathed to us Brexit and our cultural identity. After the vote The historian Mary Beard reflects on whether Brexit

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71st anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, 2015

On this 71st anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem (17-26 September 1944), in which the 1st Airborne Division lost nearly three-quarters of its men, I have put up a new page on this web site featuring Peter Stainforth’s wartime drawings. Peter

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Failure to see the full picture

Surely the underlying problem with some (many? most?) politicians, like some (many? most?) notorious TV car programme presenters, is akin to tone deafness or colour blindness? Which is another way of saying they have an inability to see ‘the full

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