by Our Defence Correspondent ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he, today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.’ – William Shakespeare The process of
Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has published a 216-page memoir, Le journal d’un prisonnier (The Diary of a Prisoner), detailing his three-week incarceration in La Santé prison following his October
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With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every major river in the country, straightening curves, pinching off floodplains, and blocking
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Lady Brenda Hale’s With the Law on Our Side arrives at a moment when public confidence in democratic institutions is increasingly fragile and governments across liberal democracies are testing the limits of
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by Durga Andrea Iorio’s Between You and AI reads like a manifesto for a new kind of leadership—one that refuses to cling to the comforting illusion that technological transformation is something external,
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by Eric To read How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude is to encounter gratitude not as a soft moral sentiment but as a cultural force powerful
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Elizabeth A. Quillen’s Medieval Nuns at War distinguishes itself through a deliberate attempt to redress what the author calls the “frequent erasure” of women whose lives surface only in “a singular mention,
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by Luxman Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown is less a straightforward history than a psychological excavation of ambition, insecurity, and legitimacy in Tudor England. Borman, long celebrated for her archival precision and
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by Durga Charles Ferguson’s Presidential Seclusion presents itself as a history of Camp David, but in truth it is a far more unsettling mirror held up to American power itself—its contradictions, its
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by Eric Lauren Johnson’s Margaret Beaufort is both a resurrection and a reckoning. It is a book that dares to reclaim one of English history’s most polarising matriarchs—“the mother of the king’s
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by Eric Piers Morgan’s Woke Is Dead reads like an obituary written by the accused at the funeral. It is brash, polemical, and intentionally blasphemous against the new secular religion of progressive
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