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There are currently 608 unaccompanied children living in the refugee camp just three miles outside the centre of Calais. 308 of them have the legal right to live in the United Kingdom. Medical volunteers have reported increasing numbers of young boys, aged between 14...

Melvyn Bragg’s fascinating new Radio 4 series on the north of England’s history showcases its crucial ‘nearly nation’ status: unlike Wales, we have a dialect, not a language; unlike Scotland, we never had a proper parliament; but the north’s rebelliousness and...

Up till now it seemed as if Conquest’s third law of politics – that the simplest way to explain the behaviour of any organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies – applied most readily to the Trump campaign. Surely only a Democratic...

Well, it is good to get your excuses in first. Otherwise, what how else could explain what possessed Brexit ultra Liam Fox, that darling of the Thatcherites to alienate the business people he has spent so many years extolling? Fox sparked anger and disbelief at the...