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Australian centre-right politicians are very fond of quoting Winston Churchill. One of the last pieces of advice that great ...

Over my quarter-of-a-century of being a doctor, I have overseen thousands of deaths. For a busy hospital physician, this is ...

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In every war, children perish. It’s the worst thing about conflict, this dragging of innocents into the swirling maelstrom of ...

No one should be put off reading Patrick Cockburn’s remarkable biography of his father by its misleading subtitle. ‘Guerrilla ...

Early one morning, Alan Garner goes to let the hens out. The hens live in a hutch in the garden of Toad Hall in Blackden, ...