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October 2013
Douglas Hurd and Edward Young’s witty and original biography of the former prime minister presents him as a master of self-aggrandisement
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October 2013
Dubious racial attitudes, an obsession with excrement and sexual eccentricities: Gandhi Before India reveals the unsavoury sides of the statesman’s character
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October 2013
Visiting the Normandy invasion beaches, I realised the importance
of the campaign in which my cousin was killed fighting for freedom
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September 2013
A new volume of reports by the Frankfurt School shows their number to be at best naive and at worst dangerously misinformed
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