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Nigel Jones

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Earl Spencer / Is it foolish, or sweet, to marry for a fourth time?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, “that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...

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Is it foolish, or sweet, to marry for a fourth time?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, “that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...

yesterday 10

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Matt Brittin won’t save the BBC

The BBC is in the headlines again – for all the wrong reasons. A TV drama on the fall of Huw Edwards, the corporation’s disgraced former chief...

24.03.2026 10

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Has Keir Starmer killed the ‘Special Relationship’?

Eighty years ago today, Winston Churchill coined the phrase ‘Special Relationship’ to describe the bond between the United States and Great...

05.03.2026 10

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Gen Z won't actually read Wuthering Heights

When Wuthering Heights (first published in 1847) is splashed across the front page of the Daily Mail as a free offer to readers and sells more...

18.02.2026 20

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John le Carré was boring and unpleasant

I have been having a John le Carré holiday. Five years after the great master of the spy thriller went to his final safe house in the sky, I spent...

13.02.2026 500

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The gentrification of British crime novels

07.02.2026 10

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Picture this / What happened to the National Portrait Gallery?

28.01.2026 10

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Tired thrillers / John le Carré was boring and unpleasant

12.01.2026 30

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What are Trump’s post-Maduro plans for Venezuela?

05.01.2026 20

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Trump says the US has 'captured' Venezuela’s Maduro

03.01.2026 60

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Forever war / Why Trump wants Venezuela’s Maduro out of power

03.01.2026 50

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Egypt case / Why did so many luvvies fall for el-Fattah?

31.12.2025 10

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Why did so many luvvies fall for el-Fattah?

30.12.2025 10

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Puritans / Did Oliver Cromwell really 'cancel' Christmas?

20.12.2025 10

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Did Oliver Cromwell really 'cancel' Christmas?

20.12.2025 20

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Smear tactics / The teenage Farage story misses the point

09.12.2025 20

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Hitler and Churchill: the artists at war

30.11.2025 20

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We’ll miss juries when they’re gone

29.11.2025 10

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Comparing Reform to the Nazis is no joke

24.11.2025 9

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Nazis / Did Hitler really have only ‘one ball’?

15.11.2025 20

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Nazis / Did Hitler really have only ‘one ball’?

15.11.2025 10

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Did Hitler really have only ‘one ball’?

15.11.2025 20

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After dark / Am I being haunted?

12.11.2025 10

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James Watson deserved better

08.11.2025 20

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Wild England / Why the authorities hate Lewes bonfire night

05.11.2025 10

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Do black lives still matter?

04.11.2025 10

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Andrew Windsor doesn’t know how lucky he is

02.11.2025 10

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The children of Hitler’s henchmen

02.11.2025 10

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Royals / Andrew Windsor doesn’t know how lucky he is

01.11.2025 20

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Party poopers / Major and Heseltine’s attacks on Reform are hard to take seriously

29.10.2025 10

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Tragic union / My father married a murderer

29.10.2025 20

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Dick Taverne was the last social democrat 

26.10.2025 10

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Banning Israeli football fans from Villa Park is a disgrace

17.10.2025 10

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Class war / Real British values

15.10.2025 10

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Shouldn’t Greenwich’s Royal Naval College be used for something better?

13.09.2025 20

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Polite decline / Britain’s problem? We’re too nice

09.09.2025 10

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Bring on the driverless Tube

08.09.2025 10

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Reform needs ex-Labour people too

06.09.2025 10

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Royal rot / The Stuarts were our worst monarchs

03.09.2025 10

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Cage rage / The rats that predicted our future

26.08.2025 20

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Mine Were of Trouble / The remarkable life of Peter Kemp, warrior and Spectator writer

19.08.2025 20

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Sea change / The Isle of Wight is an England that time forgot

12.08.2025 30

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What is Starmer had been Prime Minister in the Second World War?

09.08.2025 10

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Tangled roots / I’ve been bitten by the ancestry bug

06.08.2025 20

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Horst Mahler, far-left terrorist who became a neo-Nazi

03.08.2025 20

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