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Why was the Commune important? For just 72 days – from 18 March to 28 May 1871 – a revolutionary government ran Paris, and espoused a great number of radical causes: decent conditions for workers; free universal education; separation of Church and state; the abolition of child labour; equality between men and women; citizenship for foreigners. Although it was soon put down with remarkable ferocity, the Paris Commune inspired socialist movements around the world. Karl Marx described it as th...

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NICOLA STURGEON is tipped to be humiliated by Boris Johnson who will block her push for independence, refusing even concessions on the divisive issue, an expert on Scottish politics has claimed.

The University of Glasgow has been accused of breaking the law on free speech by cancelling a talk by a “eugenicist” economist.The historians Niall Ferguson and Robert Tombs are among 70 academics and

Alastair Campbell has suggested Mr Macron could become the "leader of Europe" (Image: GETTY) He said: “Can this be the sort of relationship that proponents of today’s Continental System have in mind? If so, they should reflect on how the story ended. “Napoleon’s attempt to subordinate the economic interests of the whole of Europe to his political aim of defeating Britain led to massive evasion of the rules. British goods, even in the days of sailing ships and horses and carts, reached t...

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Philip Collins (The Public Square, 26 February) sees astutely beyond the old debates about Boris Johnson. Johnson, like his hero Disraeli, is a career politician with a ravenous hunger for climbing the tiered cake-stand of public life. This Prime Minister is not an ideologue on a mission like Thatcher or Corbyn. Instead, like a late-Victorian Conservative, Johnson sees himself as playing the “great parliamentary game”. The point of this game is to win and keep office. Johnson constantly r...

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