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Ed WestThe Guardian |
I took my daughter to Athens for a short holiday at half-term. She is studying Ancient Greek at GCSE, which makes me immensely proud as I didn’t...
We went to Skye last year on a family holiday – an amazing island, beautiful scenery, so many great people. Towards the end of our trip we...
A few years ago, a conspiracy theory was born, based on the idea that the population of Britain was far larger than the government claimed. This was...
Donald Trump is arguably the most unsuitable candidate of any major western political party in living memory, let alone leader of its most powerful...
If there is one thing that can be said about Elon Musk, whether you like him or not, he is certainly an argument for the great man theory of history....
My brand is pessimism so I’m wary of flogging it to death or becoming a parody of myself, but it’s hard not to feel a bit downcast about the...
I’m old enough to remember the sense of optimism, hope and promise felt when Tony Blair was elected back in 1997; not by me, obviously, but I could...
Sea-thieves messenger, deliver back in reply,tell your people this spiteful message,that here stands undaunted an Earl with his band of menwho will...
I’m old enough to remember when ‘it’s a free country’ was a phrase people used in conversation. It feels like it was the kind of thing they...
One of Professor Richard Dawkins’s most influential ideas was the concept of the ‘meme’, which he coined in The Selfish Gene. A meme is an idea...
Western liberalism was built on the principle of marrying out. Our beliefs about the freedom of the individual ultimately stem from the Catholic...