Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Columbus and the Westminster abuse case

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I wrote a book some years ago about the friendship and rivalry between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci ( Toward the Setting Sun ).  One of the...
Monday, 22 December 2014

When did we stop being a seafaring nation?

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It is rather a strange thing that, as we celebrate the centenary of the Christmas Truce – maybe even read my ebook on the subject – we are...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

The Hogan-Howe approach would be disastrous

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The long shadow of the BlairBrown approach to public services seems to still reach across the years.  The Metropolitan Police commissioner B...
Monday, 15 December 2014

The myth of the myth of the Christmas Truce

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I don't think I realised how much the 1914 Christmas truce has become mythologised until I saw this year's Sainsbury's Christma...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

Christopher Jefferies and the mob

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During a New Year's Eve party at the beginning of 2011, a peculiarly irritating fellow guest offered his ill-informed opinion to the ot...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Primaries better than secondaries because they are smaller

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If I was asked, which of course I never am, I would have said that the UK's state primary schools are the jewel in the crown of our publ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

The origins of the Thorpe affair

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Jeremy Thorpe was the leader of the Liberal Party when I was first politically aware. I found myself drawn to the party through their strin...
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