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The London church that was burned out in the Blitz – but was rebuilt as the Central Church of the RAF
Historic St Clement Danes on the Strand has a very special relationship with the RAF – and the country as a whole
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Investors in the Hundred are being lured towards ‘cricket's equivalent of cryptocurrency’
ECB's assumption that world's best talent will choose Hundred over T20 competitions elsewhere is misplaced
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The best history books of 2023: from Churchill to Henry III
A slate of superb 20th-century histories were matched by a couple of magnificent, long-anticipated conclusions to medieval series
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Trigger warnings are bad enough – but this butchery of classic films is unforgivable
Culture warriors are determined to censor anything that doesn't fit modern sensitivities – even if that means falsifying our heritage
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The best acoustics in the Square Mile? This 17th century hall is a musical marvel
Largely unchanged since 1673, the Stationers’ Hall is a feast of architecture which would make the patron saint of music proud
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A party that isn't tough on crime cannot call itself 'conservative'
The planned early release of prisoners is shameful - no sensible party should consider it, let alone oversee it
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How a former French resistance fighter made the best gangster films ever seen
Jean-Pierre Melville's pacy plotting and gripping heists defined an entire, glorious epoch of French film
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The BBC's moral cowardice is shocking
Describing Hamas as terrorists is not a subjective act, but legal fact
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Why Wordsworth abandoned revolutionary France – and embraced Toryism
The Romantic poet lamented a Britain debauched by decadence and mismanagement
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This ‘enfant terrible’ was too radical for Elgar – now he’s ripe for revival
Haunted by memories of the trenches, Arthur Bliss injected English pastoral music with a highly expressive strain of modernism
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Brutalism was the future once – but it couldn’t be saved from the English rain
As early as the 1960s, architecture critic Ian Nairn seems to have seen some of the flaws in glass-and-concrete modernity
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The truth is Labour wants to abolish private schools, but daren’t admit it
Their recent flip-flopping reveals their true colours. Once in power, their's would be a destructive government
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Spies, Lies and Deception: proof that Ian Fleming’s imagination wasn't so fanciful after all
From a tear-gas fountain pen to lakes disguised as factories, a fascinating look at the tricks, and dangers, of espionage
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Did Thatcher bring the north to its knees? This stunning film shows what rubbish that is
Bryan Forbes’s The Whisperers is an unrelentingly bleak, yet brilliant, depiction of industrial decline – set long before the 1980s
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How the 1922 Committee saved the Tories from oblivion
The ‘men in grey suits’ appeared a century ago, took up arms in the Heath era – and as this superb book shows, haven’t laid them down since
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Trigger warnings for Virginia Woolf? Utter madness
An absurd website warns readers of the dangers of Mrs Dalloway – but the novel's real fault is its earnestness
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