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Derek Hirst

  • Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-60 by David Norbrook

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Derek Hirst is the author of England in Conflict 1603-60.

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This Way to the Ruin
David Runciman on the British Constitution

Mondeo Man in the Driving Seat
Ross McKibbin on Blair’s Government at Mid-Term (1999)

Short Cuts
Daniel Soar on the vexed issue of Labour Party funding

The Two Totalitarianisms
Slavoj Žižek: Stalin applauded too

Little Mercians
Ian Gilmour on why Kenneth Clarke should lead the Tories