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Selective memories of Diana

Patrick Jephson

15th August, 2007

We have lost sight of the real Princess

Did he fall or was he pushed?

James Forsyth

15th August, 2007

The death of a double agent raises many questions

Reflections on Passchendaele

James Delingpole

15th August, 2007

Harry Patch, 109, recalls his career in Kitchener’s army

Taking liberties

Jeremy Clarke

15th August, 2007

Reactions to the smoking ban at a working men’s club

The end of the war in Iraq

Douglas Davis

15th August, 2007

The signs are that President Bush is ready to call it quits

Biscuits at the Beeb

Rod Liddle

15th August, 2007

The Corporation needs to reassess its priorities

The great global warming swindle

Ross Clark

8th August, 2007

The West’s new greenness conceals a giant protectionist racket

First stop: Afghanistan

David Miliband

8th August, 2007

The new Foreign Secretary explains why his policy starts there

Is Bill Clinton running again?

Gavin Esler

8th August, 2007

Washington insiders on America’s first couple

A rather less than special relationship

Irwin Stelzer

8th August, 2007

The next best friend of the US may well be France

Salute to a centurion

Harry Mount

8th August, 2007

Lady Mary Clive will soon celebrate a remarkable 100 years

Keep your wild strawberries

Toby Young

8th August, 2007

John Ford was a far better director than Ingmar Bergman

Shambo’s revenge

Rod Liddle

8th August, 2007

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth is karmic justice

On the road with Gordon

Matthew d'Ancona

1st August, 2007

It was a gamble, more than Gordon Brown’s aides had cared to admit.

Shortly after the release of Alan Johnston from Gaza the website of Conflicts Forum, a group advocating engagement with Islamists and which is run by the former MI6 officer Alastair Crooke, posted a fascinating transcript.

The EU and stem cell research

Stephen Pollard

1st August, 2007

Stephen Pollard says that if embryonic stem cell research is banned in some parts of Europe — as it might be under the new EU treaty — old hostilities will resurface

Meet the wired retired

Amelia Torode

1st August, 2007

Oldies have taken to the digital age, says Amelia Torode, and so have their grandchildren. It’s the middle-aged professionals who fear and resent it

It's the PC Olympics

Rod Liddle

1st August, 2007

It takes all sorts to make a diversity team, but which is more important: equality or inclusion?
Rod Liddle is shocked by a recruitment ad for an Olympics quango -- and the evidence it offers that Britain is being bombarded by vaipid, deluded and meaningless pieties

Unruly rivers

Rod Liddle

25th July, 2007

England’s habitually well-mannered and inoffensive chalk streams have been uncharacteristically full of themselves this last week or so — as you may have gathered from your television evening news programmes or, if you’re unlucky, your kitchen.