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It is often said that politics and the theatre have much in common. A new book about the oldest amateur dramatic society in the world explores the connection...

It is often said that the Profumo scandal in 1963 made Harold Macmillan’s resignation as Prime Minister inevitable. It is an ill-founded view, as Alistair...

Before the 1979 election, with Airey Neave as Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary assisted in the Commons by Ian Gow (later Mrs Thatcher’s brilliant PPS) , the...

Cecil Parkinson, who died on January 22, was a brilliant politician who would have made a great Prime Minister. His work as Conservative Party Chairman was the...

It has sometimes been suggested that the Queen Mother would have preferred to have married her husband’s elder brother. The claim was repeated in a recent...

The award of a knighthood to Lynton Crosby in the New Year’s Honours List attracted much hostile comment. In a letter published in The Times on January 1...

2015 has been a good year for political history books, biographies and memoirs. They have provided most of my reading, often for reviews published in Parliament...

There could scarcely be a better time to reflect on the heroism of our servicemen and women during the Second World War, and on the freedom they preserved for...

It had to happen. Sooner or later an attempt was bound to be made to claim Churchill for God and present him as the instrument of divine purpose. The work would...