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This is why the Second World War generation was so special…
I’m always moved by the death of an old soldier such as Dunkirk veteran William Brindley whose funeral was reported in weekend editions of The Sentinel. It goes without saying that the passing of Bill...
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Can Roy Hodgson’s England erase 46 years of hurt?
We’re doing it again, aren’t we? Building our hopes up. Having those ‘what if?’ conversations in living rooms, workplaces and pubs. What if we can get past the group stage? What if Andy Carroll comes...
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Lessons to be learned from topless royal pictures
As a former agency hack, a wry smile creases my face when I hear the editors of British national newspapers speaking of their disgust and dismay at a French magazine’s decision to run with topless...
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Let’s have a proper debate about the UK’s membership of Europe
The European Parliament in Brussels. Amid the bizarre weather, the complaints about the gritting lorries, the flooding and the general January malaise, many people may have missed the debate on...
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Eurovision: Always terrible but at least it used to have a novelty value
Bucks Fizz in 1981. Eurovision: A party political broadcast on behalf of Euro-sceptics if ever there was one. Anyone wishing to persuade their compatriots that Britain really should leave the European...
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It’s good that, at last, we are giving due recognition to our Armed Forces
Mercian Regiment emblem. I don’t have a personal connection with 3Mercian, or The Staffords, as we call them in these parts. Not unless you count the fact that my great-grandfather was with the North...
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