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It's an interesting feature of the far-right and far-left that they will back their country's enemies against what they perceive as their domestic enemies. The absolutely bizarre thing in this case i… (View Post)

It's always been true to a degree. Adam Tooze's Deluge was good on this, talking about the US's strategic aims at the end of the First World War in pushing for disarmament. It wasn't because Wilson w… (View Post)

There's a coral beach near Applecross and that whole region, if you get the weather right, feels downright tropical. Midges included! (View Post)

I think I mentioned before Ken Clarke's assessment of the situation post-1979 on Matt Forde's podcast. 'The Labour Party had split in two and both were ahead of us in the polls.' I'm not saying Farag… (View Post)

There was a German mini-series called Charitè at War, about the Berlin hospital during the Second World War. One of the protagonists, a surgeon called Sauerbrook (a real guy, apparently, not sure how… (View Post)