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People seem bewildered that the National Council for Civil Liberties in the late 1970s gave house-room to the Paedophile Information…
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It is 15 years since the publication of the Macpherson Report into the investigation of the death of Stephen Lawrence.…
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Those of us who want a referendum on the European Union need to be cautious in our approach to the…
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Last week, David Cameron said that we have ‘seven months to save the most extraordinary country in history’. He meant…
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The accusation that the Tories have been installing their people in public appointments should evoke only a hollow laugh. They…
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Our neighbour Philip Merricks is a farmer on Romney Marsh, 90 per cent of whose land is below sea level.…
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Now that the economic statistics are looking better, people are beginning to rediscover the once-fashionable thought that George Osborne is…
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When I interviewed Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France, for my biography of Margaret Thatcher, I asked him…
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Who owns Scotland? The people who most commonly ask this question believe that the land has been wrested from ordinary…
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In Dublin, where I am writing this column, people are watching the Scottish referendum campaign more closely than in London.…
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Boris Johnson’s Margaret Thatcher Lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies attracted attention for its remarks about IQ, but the…
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There has naturally been plenty of unfavourable comment on how the Revd Paul Flowers, the ‘crystal Methodist’, was allowed by…
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There has not been much good news out of Greece since the eurozone powers decided to crush the country, but…
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The most extraordinary thing about the scandal of Unite at Grangemouth and in Falkirk is how long it took the…
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As I write, the World Islamic Economic Forum is opening in London, the first time it has been held in…
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I do not know whether the Greek gypsy couple accused of abducting a girl called Maria are guilty, but I…
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AS THE WHOLE Leveson wrangle approaches its climax (or anti-climax), one collateral, innocent victim of it all is the Queen.…
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Friends of mine called Georgiana and Mouse Campbell recently bought a new house. In the period between completion and moving…
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Manchester For those of us of a certain age, Ed Miliband’s speech last week was exhilaratingly nostalgic. His promise to…
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No doubt it will happen, because the Tories will not dare oppose it, but is there any conceivable good reason…
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We are not allowed to know any details about the Muslim woman, charged with intimidating a witness, who has been…
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‘Corruption’ is a subtle word, because it describes a process rather than an event. It does not merely mean bad…
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David Cameron says that he will not come back to the House of Commons again about the question of Syria…
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Attending the funeral of Margaret Thatcher in April, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was much impressed by the bit in…
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Andrew Mitchell was forced to resign as the Tory Chief Whip last autumn because he called policemen at the Downing…
