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The 1960s ‘Harry Palmer’ spy films starring Michael Caine were intended as the antithesis of James Bond. They were downbeat, gritty, and rea...
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Watch out for those Prussians on the left! It has become a terrible cliché to discuss Anglo-German relations using World War Two metaphors....
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Move over love, we've got another two to fit in here In the summer when the shocking abuse of residents at the Winterbourne View care ho...
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Lo, all their pomp and circumstance... “We have a form of government not fetched by imitation from the laws of our neighbouring states - nay...
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Four more years According to an old joke a dancefloor will have to built over Margaret Thatcher's grave to accomodate the vast number of...
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Only the second most dangerous type of Bond there is String theory posits the possibility of multiple universes exiting at the same time and...
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Under pressure The Labour conference last week was all about Ed Miliband but that didn’t really matter, few are listening to him. The man cu...
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When I told a friend of mine three years ago that I was interested in Austrian economics she asked “Isn’t that just selling cuckoo clocks an...
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$535 million Whenever I watch Dragon’s Den (Shark Tank to readers in the United States) and I see some entrepreneur waking away with £50,000...
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"This guy cracks me up" Poor old Gerald Ford was derided for, apparently, being unable to walk and chew gum at the same time. But ...