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May 29, 2012

Talking Tactics

Talking Tactics

'With a $15 trillion national debt continuing to grow, it's understandable if Obama prefers to shift the focus onto those social and personal areas where he regularly beats Romney'
May 29, 2012
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A Man for our Season

A Man for our Season

Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is a dazzling exercise in literary ventriloquism, but it panders too much to modern sensibilities, painting Thomas Cromwell as a secular saint
May 29, 2012
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Interregnum Interrogator

Interregnum Interrogator

God's Instruments is a coherent, elegant collection of essays that confirms Blair Worden as one of our finest historians of the English civil wars
May 29, 2012
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No Life Was Untouched

No Life Was Untouched

Christy Campbell's focused, meticulous account of the V-weapon campaign of 1944 provides a neat counterpoint to the magisterial grand narrative of Antony Beevor's The Second World War
May 29, 2012
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Mother Of All Jokes

Mother Of All Jokes

Education does not disqualify women from having children, as Dr Lucy Worsley falsely claims; a grounding in the humanities provides the best basis for motherhood
May 29, 2012
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