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Liz Truss is a pale imitation of Margaret Thatcher
The Foreign Secretary is more of a woman of wax than an Iron Lady.
The Foreign Secretary is more of a woman of wax than an Iron Lady.
This week’s poem is an extract from Christopher Marlowe’s celebrated play, Tamburlaine the Great.
Few assaults on Ukraine’s beleaguered capital of Kyiv have warranted the nocturnal ringing of the bells of St Michael’s Cathedral.
Featured in A.E Housman’s collection of poems A Shropshire Lad, “On the Idle Hill of Summer” describes the onset of conflict in the English countryside.
Despite operating in vicious conflict, the pilots of the First World War maintained a chivalrous code of conduct with their enemies.
In this week’s poem, the famous author Herman Melville contrasts the plenteous prospects of life with the insensate stillness of death.
It was love at first sight for the composer Richard Wagner when he met the enchanting Mathilde Wesendonck.
A triptych of romantic poetry ahead of Valentine’s Day next week.
The truth behind Crown Prince Rudolph’s death alongside his mistress remains contested to this day.
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