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Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
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The memory wars
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Drill, baby, drill
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First-place Finnish
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The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
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Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Civilisation needs silence
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