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It seems perplexing that François Fillon, now the Republican candidate for the French presidency, should be a declared admirer of…

It is not self-evidently ridiculous that Nigel Farage should be the next British ambassador to the United States. The wishes…

On a day when much fuss was being made about ‘false news’ on the net, it was amusing to study…

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Vote Leave was the most successful electoral campaign in British history. Against the opposition of all three political parties, it…

Given all the outrageous things that Donald Trump has done and said already, why has he got into so much…

 Birmingham Checking in to my hotel room on the 18th floor, for the Conservative party conference here, I opened the…