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Richard North -
26 June 2026
Students of modern history may well see in the present inter regnum, where we await the coronation of The Replacement, a sort of hiatus not dissimilar to the Phony War – that period between September 1939 and May 1940 when the land war in Europe stagnated and nothing much seemed to be happening. The parallel… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
25 June 2026
Climate change or just weather, there is no disputing the fact that it’s been hot. The worst of it is that the heat has an enervating effect where even the smallest task becomes a trial, and intellectual endeavour becomes almost impossible. Inevitably, there is a huge impact on the media, as the soaring temperature dominates… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
24 June 2026
Bearing in mind that for most of the days through June, we’ve had the central heating on for at least part of the day, and there has scarcely been a single day without rain, the shrieks from the media about the impending Armageddon, just because the sun is shining, are a little hard to take… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
23 June 2026
My first thought of Starmer’s promised resignation as Labour leader (he hasn’t actually resigned as prime minister yet) was his lack of consideration in arranging this event on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum. On second thoughts, though, he’s probably done us a favour in driving out from today’s media endless,… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
22 June 2026
It’s actually getting a bit tedious now – not that it wasn’t before. Since I last wrote on the Starmer soap opera, there have been very few developments of substance so, while the issue still dominates the headlines, the media is marking time by recycling old news. What does seem to be firming up, though,… View Article ...Read full story
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