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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)

There does seem to be a bit of a blind spot with Ed Miliband. I was reading in the Times last week (someone had left it about, I don't make a habit of it) about a protest over a solar farm at Blenhei… (View Post)