So spot-on by Iain Martin

'Blair said: “We have learnt twice before in this century that appeasement does not work. If we let an evil dictator range unchallenged, we will have to spill infinitely more blood and treasure to stop him later.”'

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Drawing on secret documents and unsparing interviews, Toby Harnden has produced perhaps the most compelling account of the IRA and the Troubles in his book, Bandit Country.

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— the age at which British voters become more likely to choose the Conservative Party over Labour has soared from 39 at the last election to **70 years-old**

— working age voters have turned their backs on the Tories

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The first candidate is announced.

My latest polling covered exclusively in the Daily Mail Daily Mail Online. All the numbers at LordAshcroftPolls.com
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My new poll covered in today's Daily Mail Daily Mail Online - all the data at LordAshcroftPolls.com

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How can this keep happening?

This man has been wrongly arrested multiple times simply for holding a sign saying “Hamas are terrorists”.

Sir Mark Rowley needs to account for this unacceptable behaviour.

Two tier policing must end.

Mark Wallace Close contender though

The Spectator's 2024 internship scheme is now open.

We don't ask for CVs as we think that system is stale and unfair. We anonymise applications.

It's the fairest - and perhaps toughest - internship scheme in journalism. spectator.co.uk/article/the-sp…

Ben Bradley, the Tory candidate for the East Midlands mayoralty, says the quiet bit out loud:

He is trying to separate his campaign from the wider Tory party because the latter is “clearly not a brilliant national picture'

Story Zoë Crowther

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I was pro rail privatisation but this is a bit much

By 1015, the demonstrators have arrived and are in place. A London square, normally peaceful and pretty, is now filled with noise. Voices, angry at the deaths of friends in Libya, are raised. They shout towards the windows of the people's bureau where the representatives of…

A growing number of Tory MPs are urging No 10 to make 'security' a dominant and re-occurring theme of their general election campaign

National security (including a major defence spending pledge), energy security, security in your street / area

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