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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (4th July, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (30th October, 2023) Two years after becoming prime minister, Margaret Thatcher gave an interview to The Jewish Chronicle about her forceful condemnation of an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (13th March, 2023) I have been in Ukraine, reporting on a nation fighting for its future while watching an explosive debate at home [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (15th February, 2023) Will Britain, as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have both promised, really turn into the “next Silicon Valley”? It is bold talk. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (30th June, 2022) For almost half a century, the glitzy Jumbo Floating Restaurant was one of&#160;Hong Kong&#8217;s best-known sights as it sat majestically [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (18th November, 2019) No doubt to erase memories of previous scepticism on man-made climate change, the Prime Minister gave his first big speech [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (3rd May, 2019) Forty years ago today, the British people went to the polls and elected their first female prime minister. This was the most [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Damn (18th April, 2019) It seems strange to recall that when I was growing up in the suburbs of London almost half a century ago, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (1st April, 2019) Dominic Grieve describes himself as &#8216;a bit of an old-fashioned Conservative&#8217;. From his haircut through to his pragmatic approach to politics [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump is terrible &#8211; but the sabotage of Brexit will outlast him</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Washington Post (18th February, 2019) For most of my life, Britain and the United States have felt like twins. My country was older and perhaps [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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