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Monica Porter

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Elon Musk is wrong about Radio Free Europe

Elon Musk is wrong about Radio Free Europe
18.03.2025 3

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Monica Porter

What Labour can learn from the glory days of British Rail

19.02.2025 10

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Trash talk / I’m a ruthless declutterer. It has cost me

11.02.2025 20

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Why Hungary owes a special debt to Jimmy Carter

President Jimmy Carter, who died earlier this week, has been praised for his humanitarian instincts. Not for nothing did he receive the Nobel Peace...

05.01.2025 4

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Monica Porter

Hungary’s most important day

The 23 October is Hungary’s most important annual public holiday, as it marks the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. It is...

23.10.2024 4

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Monica Porter

Far out / The truth about the wild Sixties

I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free love and hallucinogens, and demos against...

18.09.2024 2

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Angela Rayner and the right-to-buy hypocrites

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner is said to be planning on watering down the right-to-buy scheme which enables council tenants to purchase their...

05.09.2024 10

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Why an unhappy childhood is good for you

Many years ago I wrote a book called Dreams and Doorways, a collection of interviews with well-known people – writers, actors, politicians, sports...

26.08.2024 3

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Monica Porter

A knowing book / The glory of the Encyclopedia Americana

It’s a painful process many of us must go through: culling a big book collection, amassed over a lifetime, before moving home. You know it makes...

06.08.2024 1

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What would Reagan make of Trump?

If the Donald Trump-JD Vance ticket is successful in November and the pair head to the White House, there is a former US president who would surely...

31.07.2024 1

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Monica Porter

Lost city / The London of my youth is gone

I fell in love with London when I arrived here as a teenager at the start of the 1970s. Straight out of an American suburban high school, I’d...

15.07.2024 1

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Monica Porter