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Our lazy fireman must make a radical change
A cooling breeze wafted through the plane trees under the inky-black Provence sky. In the distance, the band played as couples danced. The...
Spectator, The, 07/26/08 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
Naked commercial greed meets Stalinist control
There is an increasingly Orwellian tone about the language of the Labour government. The Ministry of Truth, the state propaganda machine in...
Spectator, The, 06/07/08 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
Fighting Gerry on two fronts
A GOOD WAR by Patrick Bishop Hodder & Stoughton, ÃÂã12.99, pp.392, ISBN 9780340951705 ÃÂã10.39 (plus ÃÂã2.45...
Spectator, The, 05/31/08 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
Sorry, but family history really is bunk
When I visited the National Archives at Kew last week the place was full of them, scurrying about with their plastic wallets in hand, a look of...
Spectator, The, 05/03/08 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
A working-class villain
KEN: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF KEN LIVINGSTONE by Andrew Hosken Arcadia Books, ÃÂã15.99, pp. 435, ISBN 9781905147724 ÃÂã12.79...
Spectator, The, 04/26/08 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
No more Troubles
Thirty years ago Belfast was about as appealing a destination as Kabul or Baghdad are today. Growing up there at the time, we witnessed thousands...
Spectator, The, 02/09/08 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
How to waste £2.3 billion of public money
In these times of green awareness, waste management has become an increasingly fashionable issue for the public sector, always keen to find new...
Spectator, The, 12/01/07 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
How labour unrest nearly lost us the Battle of Britain
'The nation had the lion's heart. I had the luck to give the roar, ' Winston Churchill said of his role in achieving victory in the second world...
Spectator, The, 11/17/07 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
I beg to differ.... Dogs
It was a little guy called Matthew who transformed my attitude to dogs. Before he entered my life more than a decade ago, I thought that I had a...
Spectator, The, 10/27/07 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication -
Why the kid should have gone to the chair
Towards the end of the classic 1957 American courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men, the toughest juror turns bitterly on his colleagues: 'Brother, I've...
Spectator, The, 09/15/07 by McKinstry, Leo · More from publication
