- Nov 07, 2020
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library - Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world - in the honing of that ideology?
- Another Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The late 1960s was another time and another world.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three letters send a chill down the spine of the enemy: SAS. Those letters spell out one clear message. Don't mess with Britain!
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone, they say, is entitled to change his mind. Not about the defence of Britain, you're not. You either feel it in your heart, in your bones, in your gut, or you don't.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am better at politics than I am at anything else.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.
- Accounts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020