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Sport / How Britain came to dominate Formula 1

06.07.2025 10

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How Britain came to dominate Formula 1

06.07.2025 20

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Happy mediums / In defence of exorcism

02.07.2025 40

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Happy mediums / In defence of exorcism

27.06.2025 6

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Happy mediums / In defence of exorcism

26.06.2025 3

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Frozen out / Is Xi Jinping’s time up?

12.06.2025 9

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Should starvation ever be used as a weapon of war?

25.05.2025 10

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How Pakistan’s most powerful man provoked India’s missile attack

10.05.2025 5

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For most of the world, VE Day did not mean peace

08.05.2025 20

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How Pakistan’s most powerful man provoked India’s missile attack

08.05.2025 10

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Is nuclear war between India and Pakistan inevitable?

07.05.2025 5

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Was Nixon solely to blame for the fall of Saigon?

30.04.2025 3

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What is more worrying than war between India and Pakistan?

26.04.2025 6

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Kashmir attack / What is more worrying than war between India and Pakistan?

26.04.2025 7

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Putin’s Russia is part of a global Orthodox revival

21.04.2025 20

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Miracle of God / Putin’s Russia is part of a global Orthodox revival

20.04.2025 20

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The weapon that could end America’s global supremacy

28.03.2025 40

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The weapon that could end America’s global supremacy

27.03.2025 50

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Crocodile attacks and the animal predators of the second world war

16.03.2025 10

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Why Tulip Siddiq had to go

14.01.2025 6

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We should support Donald Trump’s attempt to buy Greenland

Over Christmas, president-elect Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social site that: ‘For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the...

29.12.2024 10

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How the Black Death helped bring prosperity to Europe

As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a timely moment to think...

28.12.2024 30

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South Korea has a long history of martial law

Yesterday afternoon South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol made the shock TV announcement that he was putting his country under martial law....

04.12.2024 5

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Why the West must back Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

I had a nasty shock when I switched on my TV on Sunday. It was clearly a propaganda film with hijabed women standing amidst the rubble of their...

02.12.2024 4

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Leyte Gulf is the greatest naval battle you’ve never heard of

When you think of great naval engagements, the Battle of Leyte Gulf does not immediately spring to mind, despite it being the largest naval battle...

24.10.2024 10

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India will never join China’s anti-western alliance

On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – the sixth paramount...

22.10.2024 3

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Tesla is in trouble if Kamala Harris wins

In the third century BC the city of Rhodes, in celebration of the defeat of Demetrius I of Macedonia, built the Colossus, a 30-metre-high statue of...

16.10.2024 5

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The long-forgotten history of the Chagos Islands

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of our imperial inheritance...

07.10.2024 10

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