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Issue: July/August 2018
Trump, Merkel and Brexit
"At the time of writing it is Mrs Merkel, rather than Mr Trump, whose authority is falling away"
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Bloody scandal
In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up
Blanche Girouard
Counterpoints
Tsar’s last huzzah
One hundred years ago, Edwardian England unwittingly hosted both the Romanovs and their future killers
Frances Welch
Counterpoints
An American Turner?
The National Gallery exhibition shows that Thomas Cole, like Turner and John Martin, was a visionary and a pictorial dramatist
Jacob Willer
Counterpoints
Past imperfect
"Before the screening, I made bold to ask the audience not to refrain from laughter. They were nice enough to obey my incitement"
Frederic Raphael
Counterpoints
The graveyard of communism
"Before many more decades are out these mementos will follow the ideology they so fervently sought to commemorate"
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
What would it take to derail Brexit?
‘Theresa May is committed to implementing Brexit, believing that any reversal of this policy would destroy the Conservative Party once and for all’
Michael Mosbacher
Politics
Indifference to intolerance
‘In effect, Waltham Forest Council has colluded in sectarianism for the sake of a quiet life’
Charlotte Littlewood
Guest Speaker
Irish realities
‘A new book on Brexit illustrates our great problem with Ireland: our ignorance of its self-pity’
Christopher Montgomery
Open Season
Refugees are big business for the UN
In Nairobi, there is resentment that asylum-seekers are treated better than local people
Heidi Kingstone
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
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