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The Man, The Myth, The Murderer
He's the beleaguered king on the run, finding courage and inspiration in the perseverance of a spider. The noble hero on his great horse, gazing across the field of his most famous victory. The inspiration for stirring rhetoric on freedom. He's Rober
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Welcome August 2024
“This month's issue is published on the same day as the UK general election and by the time many of you are reading this the result may already be known. Elections are historic moments and their outcomes have often represented or reflected significan
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Westminster Fool
With politics on my mind, I remembered a recipe, ‘To make a Westminster-Fool’, that I once stumbled upon in Hannah Glasse's bestselling 18th-century book The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. A fool is, of course, a silly person or an idiot. But a

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