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Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
Born on the Fourth of July
Us Brits need to come to an honest reckoning over what happened in Afghanistan
In praise of the Great British pub
Let us sip, slurp and quaff this weekend, and do our bit to keep the pub trade going
Shining limelight upon twilight?
Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government
Letter from Washington: The emptiness of Trump 2020
The President doesn’t know what his presidency is for
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
A calibrated campaign of genocide
Our leaders have let us down, so let’s resolve as individuals to end our dependency on the Chinese power wiping out the Uyghurs
Simon Richards hands on the Freedom Association torch
The future of freedom is increasingly in the universities
How has James Bond evolved?
And is it for better or for worse? With author and historian, Professor Jeremy Black
Charity boss fired after criticising Black Lives Matter
Nick Buckley was sacked from the organisation he founded nine years ago
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
