Lord Bew
Fathers of the republic
A long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland
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of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
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Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
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Our first Catholic prime minister?
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Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves