OVERRATED
May 2013
Two new biographies of the Left's hero choose to ignore his dark side
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April 2013
The real Tory leader is not a socially progressive moderniser but a throwback to a bygone age
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March 2013
The infamous French libertine should be enjoying a reviva. The trouble is, he was a rotten pornographer
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January/February 2013
A sceptical look at America’s leading apologist for Islam, fêted all over Washington from the Saudis to the CIA
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