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Calm in a crisis used to be a national characteristic; now we panic at the drop of a hat. A loss of trust in the elite is to blame.

All the following is the product of knowing very little about politics, or real life, or Boris Johnson, quite a lot of years ago. That is all. Possibly ...

The diaries of Chips Channon, the 1930s Tory MP, illustrate how making friends with dictators can be such a dangerous mistake

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David Kynaston continues his magnificent series on postwar British society with On the Cusp, a riveting study of four pivotal summer months

26 July 2021 • 12:02am An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel Credit: Getty Images /Dan Kitwood SIR – The French say that they cannot stop a migrant boat unless it is in distress. If these were private boats, this could be true. However, the migrants pay for their passage, which makes the voyage a commercial operation. These commercial vessels must therefore meet the standards required to conform with safety rules. The p...

Ken Bates   SIR – Mr Cummings probably sees himself as a whistleblower. He is nothing of the sort, and his revelations say more about him than about those whom he seeks to discredit. It only goes to show that superior intelligence is no bar to stupidity. Richard Tinn   SIR – Dominic Cummings is succeeding unintentionally in his aim of calling the Prime Minister’s judgment into question. What on earth possessed Boris Johnson to appoint an anarchic clown to a position of influence? Steve ...

The statue of the Princess of Wales was unveiled last week Credit: Getty Images/WPA Pool SIR – It was astonishing, but somehow not unexpected, to see such an unbecoming memorial to Princess Diana unveiled last week (report, July 2). It is positively Stalinist in its dreary greyness, its unsympathetic portrayal of its subject, and its consequent failure to capture a likeness or her ebullient character. Much better would have been an even more extensive memorial planting of the Sunken Garden. M...

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