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Truss and Sunak are not true Thatcherites

Truss and Sunak are not true Thatcherites

When Margaret Thatcher was ousted in 1990, no-one mourned her more than the satirists. Unwilling to dispense …

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Gary Lineker doesn't understand the Holocaust

Gary Lineker doesn't understand the Holocaust

It's like clockwork. Every few months the government announces a new plan to tighten immigration policy and t…

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Can we be heroes? | Samuel Rubinstein | The Critic Magazine

Can we be heroes? | Samuel Rubinstein | The Critic Magazine

It's an image that will be burned into my mind forever. A woman wearing a head-covering sits before a makeshi…

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A silent whistle | Samuel Rubinstein | The Critic Magazine

A silent whistle | Samuel Rubinstein | The Critic Magazine

Disraeli liked to write; Churchill liked to paint. The great hobby of today's Conservative Prime Ministers is…

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Dan Snow is the ultimate midwit historian

Dan Snow is the ultimate midwit historian

Dan Snow, the TV historian, is anxious about his 'privilege'. One of many 'nepo babies' in the British media,…

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Abulafia is right - Gopal's tweets are a disgrace

Abulafia is right - Gopal's tweets are a disgrace

Does there exist, in all the world, a single person or institution whose stature has improved since they bega…

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Will the British Right lose us the Falklands? Declinist narratives embolden old enemies

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By Samuel Rubinstein
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He can smell weakness. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty) ConservativesFalklandsMAGAMileiPoliticsReform UKRightUK Prefer us on Google There is something Pavlovian about Argentine leaders: show them low approval ratings and they start salivating over “las Malvinas”. Javier Milei never used to lose much sleep over this rocky, rainy archipelago 300 miles east of Patagonia.
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How the Euro elite helps Trump They are more obedient than the Right

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By Samuel Rubinstein
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In 2025, Trump lined up European leaders like schoolchildren. (White House) Defencedonald j trumpNatoWar Prefer us on Google Donald Trump has always got a kick out of humiliating people who suck up to him. That was the entire premise of The Apprentice, and a running theme in his two non-consecutive terms as president. His career is littered with the hunched skeletons of discarded lackeys. His current lackeys know this, of course: it is a risk they knowingly incur, and a small price to pay for power.
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Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument Jason Arday’s death should not be weaponized

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By Samuel Rubinstein
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A vigil for Arday at Cambridge (Credit: Nordin Catic/Getty) Cambridge UniversityJason ArdaySociety Prefer us on Google Marie Sophie Hingst was a promising young woman. Born in Germany, she received a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin. Her blog, “Read On, My Dear, Read On”, detailed the history of her own family. Several of her relatives had been murdered in the Holocaust, but her grandparents survived.
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