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Anna Akhmatova wrote of her people’s darkest days, when they were caught in the middle of the twentieth century’s vise.

The oddity is that everybody who is loyal to Donald Trump knows more about him than they can ever admit

Hughes said nothing of his wife’s suicide for decades, until his own final years when he penned the words: ‘Everything in me loved her.’

It is hard to convey to anyone in a position of power in the UK just how weak our police have made us look

The 53-year-old’s rise to power last month confused much of the world’s media. Certainly it threw a wrench in the works for glossy international groups like the WEF.

Philip Larkin’s poem about retired racehorses captures past glory without giving in to sentiment.

What is the point of being the world’s richest man if you are not allowed to tell people where to go?

“How can we restore public trust in institutions?” This is one of the biggest questions of our time. Something all would-be sages stroke their chins about.

A limerick about Stalin and Lenin, written by a former communist, wittily punctures their politics.

The British police seem to have long ago decided to police everything except for crime.

And if it doesn’t wind up being another Trump v Biden race, America will be in even more choppy waters

In a farewell piece, Claudine Gay said she was the victim of “demagogues” who had “weaponized” her presidency to “undermine the ideals animating Harvard since its founding.”