Fortifications
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
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Lost railway art
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The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
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Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
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British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived