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Cousin marriage: can we blame Henry VIII?
The Tudor monarch has been dragged into the culture wars and hugely misrepresented and misunderstood on the peculiar subject of consanguinity
21 hrs ago
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 5 October 2025
Clinking glasses for Peter Ackroyd, Bob Geldof and Imran Khan, the first aerial combat and International Day of No Prostitution—lots to get through...
Oct 5
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Eliot Wilson
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What age should a Labour leader be?
Having charted the ages at which Conservative leaders took office, I repeated the exercise for the Labour Party
Oct 2
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Eliot Wilson
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September 2025
What age should a Conservative Party leader be?
Looking at the ages at which Leaders of the Conservative Party assumed the position, and what conclusions might be drawn from the data
Sep 30
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 28 September 2025
French icon Brigitte Bardot celebrates her 91st birthday, it's the feast of St Wenceslaus and Ulster Day marks the signing of the Solemn League and…
Sep 28
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Eliot Wilson
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Who was PM when the PM was born?
Quirks of chronology or sources of hidden meaning and insight—you decide
Sep 27
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Eliot Wilson
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Undersea cables and UK national resilience
Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy recently published a report on undersea cables, from which we can draw broader…
Sep 27
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Eliot Wilson
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Podcast: Mary Tudor's marriage difficulties—who could a queen regnant wed?
The "Spanish match" with Philip II was warned against and proved unpopular, but marrying a subject would be problematic and a Habsburg alliance was a…
Sep 26
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Eliot Wilson
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Assisted dying is a matter of life and death
Whether you support the "assisted dying" bill or not, a law under which the state helps people to end their lives has to be subject to the most rigorous…
Sep 21
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 21 September 2025
Birthday greetings to Jerry Bruckheimer, Stephen King, Bill Murray, Samantha Power and Liam Gallagher. Not necessarily a party you'd want to attend.
Sep 21
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Eliot Wilson
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Guest post: The Carey Street Banksy—a symbol of broken Britain?
The guerrilla mural of a caricatured judge and a noble protestor is hardly high art, but its appearance and semi-removal read like metaphors, writes…
Sep 19
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Alexander Horne
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News recap: new French premier, German spies, Mandelson's peerage
Keeping on top of the news is never easy so some matters to note while everything else goes on
Sep 17
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Eliot Wilson
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