Even among senior, Labour figures, there is fairly widespread agreement that Britain’s intervention in Iraq has had dire consequences for the whole Middle East Region. George Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ was justifiably seen by most Muslims as an attack on them and on their beliefs. The
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We have just spent a few gloriously sunny days in Eyemouth, an attractive, little fishing port in the SE of Scotland. It is Border country and traces of past wars are still visible. The topography of the landscape with its numerous little coves meant it was once
Read more →Theresa May has serious Tory leadership ambitions which were germinating long before Cameron intimated that this would be his final term as PM. Some saw the announcement as a clearing of the way for Boris and a shackle method of the London Mayor for the next few
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There’s a fairly bizarre letter in today’s Sunday Times from a resident of Penrith – Soonu Verghese; I am uncertain of the gender as these old, Cumbrian names are unfamiliar to me. For the purposes of this piece, we will assume it is a woman. She argues
Read more →The seeds of last Thursday’s decimation at the Polls of Scottish Labour were germinating long before the 2014 Referendum. Worried by the rise of the Nationalists in the Seventies, the late John Smith, one of Labour’s sharpest thinkers, saw critically limited devolution as the solution. His prodigy,
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For nearly one hundred years, the Constitution, has been the predominant issue in every election, fought in Northern Ireland, even at Council level, where there is a wearying, unionist pre-occupation with flags and emblems. The results of the Election in Scotland have ensured that independence has shot
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The Italian people were a race of emigrants, particularly through the early part of the Twentieth Century and in recent weeks the Nation and, particularly its Coast Guards, deserve Nobel Peace Prize nomination for their humanitarian work in rescuing desperate asylum seekers from the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, in
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The Italian people were a race of emigrants, particularly through the early part of the Twentieth Century and, in recent weeks, the Nation and, particularly, its Coast Guards, deserve Nobel Peace Prize nomination for their humanitarian work in rescuing desperate asylum seekers from the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, in
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Publishers have always known that there is a ready market for romanticised accounts of photography on the front line of conflicts. “It’s what I do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War “ by Lynsey Addario rises above that genre, principally because she writes very well and
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As in most things, Nigel Farage was absolutely wrong when he decried the left wing bias of the BBC in last week’s Leaders’ Debate. On the contrary, it is a bastion of the establishment. ‘Pinkoes and Traitors’ , the recently published history of the BBC by Jane
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