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In his recent book What are Universities for?, the intellectual historian Stefan Collini says ‘every politician is a closet historian’. To which, I suppose, the only response is that some politicians have studied more history than others. I am conscious...

Northern Ireland came into being as a political entity in 1921. Faced first with the threat of Irish Home Rule then, after the Easter Rising and the War of Independence, with the prospect of an entirely independent Ireland, Ulster unionists armed themselves...

By Takis Fotopoulos The victory of Brexit and the election of Trump drastically affected the New World Order by explicitly questioning globalisation. The reason in both cases is the strong popular resistance lurking in the background working towards...

Sterling and shares are sliding as the City reacts to rising panic in Westminster over next week’s referendum Latest: FTSE 100 tumbles through 6,000 point mark Bank of England pumps liquidity into the City Pound is getting thumped again German 1...

MPs have voted to renew Trident by an overwhelming margin: 472 voted for, compared to 172 against. It’s no great surprise that the decision to approve the replacement of Britain’s four nuclear submarines passed. Perhaps what was more interesting was...