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Britain should take a long, cool look at itself. Our military
Britain should take a long, cool look at itself. Our military strategy needs rethinking: how, with whom and against what threats are we going to organ...

Lady Jenkin, a Conservative, used its launch to declare the main
Lady Jenkin, a Conservative, used its launch to declare the main cause of this national crisis was “poor people [who] do not know how to cook”. Je...

RAIN CHARM (for my father) It is not raining now but, later
RAIN CHARM (for my father) It is not raining now but, later on, Perhaps I’ll hear the purling pulse of rain Tap fingers on my windowpane, become A...

City traders howling for a Porsche and a Cotswolds cottage on pain
City traders howling for a Porsche and a Cotswolds cottage on pain of taking their dubious skills to Monaco must be a nadir in modern capitalism. They...

WASHING She hangs her washing line along the street. She lives
WASHING She hangs her washing line along the street. She lives next door, though we have never met. She pegs up sopping hides, and hidden thus What ...

CUPID’s CABINET Just as the chamfer angle points to that Degree
CUPID’s CABINET Just as the chamfer angle points to that Degree immeasurable, now eclipsed, Let all our major nuts seem minor bolts For the constr...

WASHING The washing lines are out along our street Where
WASHING The washing lines are out along our street Where next-door-neighbours we have never met, Amend themselves to hides, and hidden thus What len...

THERE THERE ‘There there’: it should be curried on their
THERE THERE ‘There there’: it should be curried on their tombs; Those vast-hipped ladies, in their twilight years Who shipped, magnificently, thr...