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Crying and yawning are infectious. We Liberal Democrats in the vast hall at the Bath & West showground in Somerset were doing both at...

“My grandfather was Hungarian”. Not such a loaded statement as, “My father was a toolmaker”, and although I may have said it before...

The late Queen of the United Kingdom – not just England, please – was a mistress of the perceptive remark.  One reliably attributed to...

One doesn’t like to brag, but as it happens I have met both Mr Farage - Nigel to his mates and voters - and Mr Tice...

Those whose knowledge of British history was mostly drawn from that incomparable history of England 1066 and All That, A Memorable...