Is Brexit, the issue on which the British public will shortly vote in a referendum the doomed dream of those who wish to restore British national sovereignty? Or is it the nation’s political destiny? At the time of writing, online polling suggests roughly equal support for the Leave and Remain
At a moment of war when Britain stood alone without allies facing what appeared to be almost certain defeat, Winston Churchill delivered what is probably his most famous speech. He told the British House of Commons on 4 June 1940: “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight
No one had time for a deliberate aim or time to think…There is no mystery about the outbreak of the First World War.The deterrent failed to deter. This was to be expected sooner or later.A deterrent may work ninety nine times out of a hundred.On the hundredth occasion it produces
Until the end of the Cold War it was largely taken for granted that an effective foreign policy depended crucially on the possession of military power. While diplomacy and other forms of what has become known as “soft power” had a role, it was generally assumed that in the absence
More than 60 years ago the British socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, founder of Britain’s National Health Service, shocked the British political classes by describing Conservatives as “lower than vermin”. Throughout his life, the phrase, for which he refused to apologise, was repeated in virtually every assessment of his career and
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