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Seven Reasons to Leave the EU

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Forty years ago, the EU was a magnificent attempt at uniting the peoples of Europe in a union of prosperity and friendship. Today it is a failed attempt at a federal superstate,…

  • May 30, 2019
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Why my Uncle Bill was Contemptible

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When Germany invaded Belgium and France in August 1914, many people on both sides thought it was going to be something of a walk over. The Germans put two and a half million armed…

  • August 19, 2018
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Who is the worst villain in fiction?

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Who is the worst villain in fiction? There is no shortage of candidates from which to choose in this game that anyone can play. There are the most–wanted criminals, Professor…

  • August 16, 2018
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Should Eliza Doolittle marry Professor Higgins?

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George Bernard Shaw wrote his celebrated play Pygmalion, on which My Fair Lady is based, in 1912. It opened in New York in March 1914 and London in April 1914, with Mrs Patrick…

  • June 17, 2018
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The Wisdom of Crowds

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Since the beginning of the “age of the common man” in the nineteenth century, there has been a widely held belief that, as Henry Thoreau put it, ‘The mass never comes up to…

  • April 25, 2018
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What makes a novel good?

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, as Elizabeth Bennett might have put it, that the novel is a story about people. No-one could disagree with this definition, but it is…

  • February 13, 2018
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Why SOE gave away Britain’s top war secret to the Nazis

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At a crucial stage of World War II, the Special Operations Executive deliberately allowed one of its most closely guarded top secrets to fall into Nazi hands – as part of a…

  • February 8, 2018
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Remain v Leave: two awkward truths

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My first awkward truth is one that both Remainers and Leavers can agree on, if they are honest with each other. It is that no-one really knows what will happen when the UK leaves…

  • November 27, 2017
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How to tell bad companies

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Some years back, I published a book titled Bad Company: Behind the corporate mask, which the Sunday Times was generous enough to nominate as its Business Book of the Week. The…

  • November 5, 2017
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The myth of the Brexit “Cliff Edge”

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Before the Brexit referendum we had Project Fear. We now have the myth of the Cliff Edge that British businesses are going to stumble over in March 2019 – causing us to beg the…

  • September 29, 2017
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