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Seldon Man

This article in the Sunday Times about Anthony Seldon, the head of Wellington College, is fascinating. His head of wellbeing, Ian Morris, caused a certain amount of scepticism when he was first appointed, but points out this key insight: “Traditionally, … Continue reading

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Just 20 years ago

This morning, I listened to The Reunion on Radio 4 – today’s episode reunited the founders of Stonewall. I have some very clear political memories of the 1980s – I remember the Falklands War, the miners’ strikes, the waves of … Continue reading

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Today’s Must Reads: Edgar on Progressivism and Aaranovich on al-Megrahi

Some fascinating opinion pieces in today’s papers. In the Guardian, David Edgar, a former member of the editorial board of Marxism Today laments the failure of New Labour to help the working class.  In the article, he writes that: “Since … Continue reading

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“A partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet unborn”

Geoffrey Lean writes in today’s Telegraph about why it is no accident that conservation and Conservatism are neighbours in the dictionary.

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Today’s must-read

Danny Finkelstein is in characteristically great form today with this must read piece in The Times… Continue reading

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