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1. Margaret Thatcher: Wrong on many things, but right on the one thing that mattered - or so argues Christie Davies
2. The British Empire will outlast the European Union - argues Lincoln Allison
3. When the (Fairy) Dust has Settled: Lincoln Allison assesses what the long-term impact of the London Olympics will be
4. How to Handle a Witch (or Several): The Daylight Gate - Jeanette Winterson
5. Tom Holland's In the Shadow of the Sword is a great story, bravely told, but it leaves Richard D. North longing for old fashioned academic pedantry: In The Shadow Of The Sword - Tom Holland
6. Those who support European integration should support British separation from Europe - argues Brendan Simms
7. Sunday Courts: A Kenneth Clarke proposal that Chris Grayling would do well to shelve
8. Lincoln Allison asks, are the Olympic Games the biggest con on the planet?
9. So how did London become so good? Lincoln Allison argues that much of what went right was due to accidental fortune
10. Caro gives us Lyndon Johnson in a form which would have a Shakespeare richly intrigued. This is work worthy of Cicero – or a Robert Harris novel, says Richard D. North: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, volume 4 - Robert A. Caro

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