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Historian, leader writer for Daily Telegraph, contributing editor for Catholic Herald, Moral Maze, Thought for the Day, proud godfather. Views my own.

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    Aug 9

    My book is out in the UK on October 14!  "Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging & the Future of the West”. Combining history & philosophy, I argue that tradition is beautiful & necessary, that fidelity to our past is key to future happiness.

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  2. 38 minutes ago

    *Which* is

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  3. 42 minutes ago

    Before I even begin reading, got to say GORGEOUS design and font. A sociology primer from 1971, with is totally my aesthetic.

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Very good interview with on Cromwell: Charles the European innovator; parliament the defender of English custom

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    8 hours ago

    In which I discuss the life and legacy of Oliver Cromwell.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Wants to play Too tired to play “Let me know if you want to…” Zzzzzz

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    16 hours ago

    Agamemnon as an Edwardian gentleman.

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  8. 14 hours ago

    Bertie is feeling better, thanks for your kind words. Here he is contemplating how handsome he is. Looks like a photo in a hairdressers.

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    Sep 21

    Biden says America has renewed its relationship with the European Union and is talking up security and freedom being linked. In the past month, he pulled out of a country in a way that handed it to a group of militants and did a submarine deal behind France's back...

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    Sep 19

    🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨 Our NEW CBeebies House presenter, George will be starting soon! ❤️ He loves cooking and dancing, and he can't wait to be your friend. 🥘🕺🤗

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    Sep 20

    “This is why your country’s shit, because you use your women for this!” — mounted Border Patrol officer to Haitian migrant he was riding down, as he sheltered with his family. One of the scenes we saw on the Rio Grande. Watch our video: Full report:

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    Sep 18

    “So, like, do we just arrest *each other*? How exactly does this work?”

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    Sep 18
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    I wish I could sit under a tree and read it all tomorrow.

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    Sep 18

    Imagine if the mainstream media thoroughly investigated every single drone strike of the past 20 years.

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  15. Sep 18

    Exactly! So much that we think is dead old is a 19th century re-imagining of the past: traditions develop, evolve and are reinvented. Hope you enjoy it!

    Well timed book by out next month. The Notre Dame grotesque on the cover, he observes, was designed by Viollet-le-Duc in 1844, remaking tradition in 19th-century style.
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    Sep 17

    Thread. Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context.

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  17. Sep 18

    So, there is life after the EU after all.

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  18. Sep 17

    We will not forgive, said President Biden before the strike, in a typically coherent display of Catholic theology. The US government is now “exploring the possibility of ex gratia payments” to compensate the dead people's families.

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  19. Sep 17

    The drone strike that supposedly stopped a terror attack in Kabul, a farewell gesture, killed 10 civilians including 7 children. The "explosives" were likely water bottles. The driver worked for a US aid group & his car "posed no threat at all."

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  20. Sep 17

    The Red Wall switched, suggests Seb Payne in his important new book, because Thatcher broke up a collectivised culture in the NE and created a more individualistic, suburban one. Brexit tipped it, but the fall was a long-time coming.

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  21. Sep 15

    “Our first demand is, uh, more flags.” “Yes, more flags.”

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