David Horspool

Jeremy Corbyn is taking Labour back to the 1640s

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Jeremy Corbyn will probably enjoy this book — which doesn’t mean you won’t. Asked to name the historical figure he…

Young Henry – England’s lost king

17 September 2016 9:00 am

It is one of the great set-pieces of high drama in English history. The king, shamed by his part in…

Just two of many controversial Games: Hitler’s racist jamboree in Berlin (above right); and the Stockholm Olympics, in which the brilliant Native American Jim Thorpe — sometimes regarded as the greatest athlete of all time — was stripped of his gold medals

The modern Olympics have always been a fiasco

30 July 2016 8:00 am

There’s nothing new about lying and cheating at the Olympics. Scandal has dogged the Games for well over a century, says David Horspool

The Easter Rising’s road to hell — paved with good intentions

9 April 2016 9:00 am

While reading this book in a London café, I was politely buttonholed by an Irishman: ‘Sorry to disturb you, but…

The Peasants’ Revolt — such a thrilling moment in English history — has eluded novelists in the past

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Considering that it was, as Melvyn Bragg rightly puts it, ‘the biggest popular uprising ever experienced in England’, the Peasants’…

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5 March 2011 12:00 am

A match to make you see the point of football

Ready to rebel? You are part of a glorious tradition

29 July 2009 12:00 am

Angry disenchantment with the political and financial establishment has rarely been deeper. David Horspool says that the English rebel — culturally affronted rather than ideologically left-wing — is an honourable archetype of our nation’s history

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‘We need to drive normal people out of politics.’
‘There are rumours another crash could be on the way.’
‘There are rumours another crash could be on the way.’
‘Must you do your make-up on the Tube?’
‘Must you do your make-up on the Tube?’
‘There’s a Novichokolate on the pillow.’
‘There’s a Novichokolate on the pillow.’
‘All you do is binge watch.’
‘All you do is binge watch.’
‘Amazon would have delivered your sermon a lot quicker.’
‘Amazon would have delivered your sermon a lot quicker.’
‘Don’t feed the Lib Dems – it just encourages them.’
‘Don’t feed the Lib Dems – it just encourages them.’
‘Hush, hush, lower your tone,Christopher Robin is checking his phone.’
‘Hush, hush, lower your tone,Christopher Robin is checking his phone.’
‘There’s a 12.5 per cent surcharge for American tourists.’
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