Seven elections that rocked britain

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As the country goes to the polls, RICHARD TOYE explores th

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BBC History Magazine

04 July, 2024

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Go back to the future

D.H. ROBINSON Millennial “progressive” politics have failed. They have worsened our country and undermined democracy itself

History of War

A new struggle rebuilding britain

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind

The Big Issue

Part 2 the state we’re in

But in many respects, the things that we, as a nation, need to face up to also means needing to recognise the role of the UK’s first ‘New Right’ prime minister in our lives. Our schools (now academies

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Alexandra Wilson charts opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives

Prospect

These revolutionary times

A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.