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Francis Pike

The Spectator

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Why Tulip Siddiq had to go

Why Tulip Siddiq had to go
14.01.2025 6

The Spectator

Francis Pike

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 4

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Francis Pike

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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Francis Pike

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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Francis Pike

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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Francis Pike

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 9

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Francis Pike

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 2

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Francis Pike