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Rishi Sunak’s Poisoned Chalice

Posted on June 1, 2023 by odeboyz

The Chalice The CDO’s [Conservative Democratic Organisation] chairman, David Campbell-Bannerman, said the party faces a “turning point” as it risked the possibility of losing office to Labour, and claimed that Mr Sunak still had questions over his legitimacy as he … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Thomas Penn ~ The Brothers York: An English Tragedy (2019)

Posted on March 30, 2020 by odeboyz

Thomas Penn’s day has come! Who’d have thought an academic work on the York brothers would be of the moment? Well he has Hilary Mantel to thank. She’s turbo-charged medieval history into a central position with her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. … Continue reading →

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