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China is so obviously a ‘potential risk to UK safety or interests’ that if there is an ‘enhanced’ tier under our Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, China should be on it. We keep re-learning, but then forgetting, that China is always using covert means to extend its power over western countries, thereby undermining trust. Our government

‘Mad’. ‘Disgusting.’ These are the words Rory Stewart, the great centrist king over the water, uses to describe Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to expel Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour party. He goes on: ‘Jeremy Corbyn, whatever you think of him, is a major figure who represents a very significant part of Labour history and heritage.’ 

Jonathan Sumption joins us to discuss the dramatic final stages and momentous legacy of the Hundred Years’ War

Jonathan Sumption’s magisterial history of the Hundred Years War concludes with the detailed, judicious and far-sighted Volume Five

On 5 February 1328 the last Capetian king of France was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum of Saint-Denis. It is now 33 years, and more than 3,000 pages since Jonathan Sumption’s first readers followed Charles IV on his last journey, as his funeral procession wound its slow way from Notre-Dame across the Grand

Jonathan Sumption, the outspoken former Supreme Court justice, spent 44 years writing books about the Hundred Years’ War — he’s finally finished. He talks Brexit, lockdown and cancel culture

The fifth and final volume of Jonathan Sumption’s vast narrative of the Hundred Years War opens in November 1422 with the funeral of the French king, Charle

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Lord Jonathan Sumption was appointed to the Supreme Court of the U.K. in 2012, following a career as a respected and highly regarde

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PETER HITCHENS: A report published yesterday concluded the supposed benefits of lockdown were a drop in the bucket when compared to the costs.