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Tag: History

Total Results: 299

Boris emerged victorious last month. But victory next time is not assured. Photo: Oli SCARFF / AFP via Getty Images
01/13/2020 - 12:04am

How Boris could blow his majority History shows that landslide victories are no guarantee that governments will be returned to power

Peter Franklin
Wednesday, December 18
18.12

Let’s all go back to the year 2000 If you had the power to turn back time, would you re-set the 21st century and start again?

Peter Franklin
Monday, December 16
16.12

Did this election change anything? The Prime Minister must trust the communities who placed their trust in him

Peter Franklin
Wednesday, November 27
27.11

Britain’s divisions go way, way back Political maps here and across Europe reflect the actions of long-dead kings and empires

Ed West
Wednesday, July 31
31.07

How WEIRD are you?

Peter Franklin
Thursday, June 27
27.06

How cricket ran out of time

Jon Hotten
Thursday, June 20
20.06

How cavalier is Boris? Attacks on the Tory MP's morality only deepen his popularity

Giles Fraser
20.06

Can we do without religion?

Peter Franklin
Wednesday, June 5
05.06

Is this the world’s worst housing project?

Peter Franklin
Tuesday, June 4
04.06

Imagine if we’d lost D-Day History has not been entirely generous to the role of the British servicemen

Robert Tombs
Wednesday, May 29
29.05

Can Manchester unite the country? Plan bee: time to move the UK's capital to the home of radicalism

Jonn Elledge
Tuesday, May 28
28.05

Why we need a more British capital

Peter Hitchens