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Paul Johnson, author and journalist, died this morning after a long illness at the age of 94. He is survived by Marigold, his three sons and daughter, ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren. May light perpetual shine upon him and may he rest in peace.
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Don’t let the Tory establishment close ranks against @KemiBadenoch thearticle.com/dont-let-the-…
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Why Kemi Badenoch deserves not just to go far, but to win thearticle.com/why-kemi-bade…
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I wrote this piece about Kemi Badenoch in March 2019, urging her to stand for the leadership. Now, battle-hardened in the culture wars, she has done so — and Michael Gove has endorsed her as “brave, principled, brilliant and kind”. He’s right. Go Kemi! thearticle.com/why-kemi-bade…
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Roger Scruton is dead, but his books and ideas will live on thearticle.com/roger-scruton…
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My father Paul Johnson’s longest and most original book, “The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-30”, explains in detail how and why this happened. In 30 years, no historian has improved on his work, but the academic fraternity still ignores it.
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theguardian.com/politics/202… Ed Cummings of The Observer on the deep distress of self-loathing Brits
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Sir Richard Dearlove’s warnings are wise. Will Boris Johnson heed them? thearticle.com/sir-richard-d…
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The Cummings affair: what is it really about? thearticle.com/the-cummings-…
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Attali speaks with the benefit of hindsight. At the time neither Mitterrand nor anybody else saw the fall of the Wall as “inevitable”. The French were as astonished as the Americans, British and the Germans themselves. But Mitterrand liked to pose as the omniscient intellectual.
Fascinating Jacques Attali interview on Mitterrand's approach to fall of Berlin Wall. It was not a big deal as Mitterrand knew it was inevitable and Gorbie had said Russia would never open fire on demonstrators. lepoint.fr/politique/jacques… @anneapplebaum @DanBJohnson @annemcelvoy
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The faith and the fury: my father Paul Johnson spectator.co.uk/article/the-… via @spectator
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This evening I spoke at St George’s German Lutheran Church in Whitechapel on the topic of “The Berlin Wall — my part in its downfall”. A lovely audience in person and online, all helping to preserve this remarkable and historic place.
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Kemi Badenoch has just revealed that when she was in charge of candidate selection for the Tory party, she booted her husband Hamish off the list, rather than risk any conflict of interest. Kemi as PM could be trusted never to abuse power or patronage.
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Germany’s crisis of conscience | Daniel Johnson | The Critic Magazine thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-…
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Hevrin Khalef was killed for being a Kurd. Her murder is a Turkish war crime thearticle.com/hevrin-khalef…
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There is only one way that Rishi Sunak can pay for the pandemic: scrap HS2 thearticle.com/there-is-only…
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Worried that the National Trust has lost its way? You aren’t alone. Tickets for this event are selling fast! Visit magnificent Houghton Hall for just £5 to hear me in conversation with Zewditu Gebreyohanes of Restore Trust on Friday 15 July 6-8 pm.
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We are more grateful for Roger’s life, work and friendship than words can express.
“Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude”
Thank you dear, brilliant Roger for those beautiful and wise words.
Dan and I will always be grateful for having been your friends.
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Thanks to the always readable Helen Dale for a stimulating debate about the UK. She refers to me as a “historian moonlighting as a journalist”, which will I take as a compliment.
My responses to Theodore Dalrymple, @DrSamuelGregg, & @DanBJohnson on "The Divided Kingdom", for @LawLiberty. Where are we now, after an eventful July? lawliberty.org/forum/still-d…
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Anti-semitism is a global plague. Starmer cannot afford to lose this fight thearticle.com/anti-semitism…
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What Harry’s Taliban boast conceals thearticle.com/what-harrys-t…
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The Foreign Office must defend Dame Caroline Wilson, our woman in Beijing thearticle.com/the-foreign-o…
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Why the campaign to save Tolkien’s home in Oxford deserves to succeed thearticle.com/why-the-campa…
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Greta Thunberg has not (yet) won a Nobel Peace Prize. That was Malala, now an undergraduate at LMH, Oxford. She’s just joined OUCA, ie she’s a Tory
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Jessica Berlin is among the most brilliant German commentators on Ukraine. Here she calls for an international panel to investigate Germany’s corrupt links to Putin’s Russia. But she’s sacrificed her career and livelihood for her principles. UK think tanks: give this woman a job!
Zwei Dinge sind bemerkenswert. Erstens, dass diese Berliner Zeitung das Interview bringt.
Zweitens: die kompromisslose Klarheit von Jessica Berlin. Wirklich lesenswert!
Security expert: We need an international investigation of Germany's Russia ties berliner-zeitung.de/politik-…
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Andrew Neil, Michael White and other eminent journalists retweet Alastair Campbell in TheArticle. We really do offer every angle — and it’s all free! Join today with no paywall.
Good questions from Alastair Campbell: Media questions at No10 briefings are woeful. Here are 20 they should ask thearticle.com/media-questio…
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Displayed in a bookshop near the Sorbonne — the French translation of my book “White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was fought on the chessboard” (Atlantic, 2007). Good to see that this essay in the history of ideas is still being read in Paris, of all places!
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My reply to a brilliant essay by @_HelenDale on threats to the United Kingdom, for the excellent online platform Law and Liberty lawliberty.org/forum/a-glori…
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I am greatly heartened by the strong stand that President Rose has taken — and I trust that the Fellows of Magdalen will back her up.
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The closure of the JC is a disaster, not only for Jews and journalists in general, but for the whole country. I hope a plan can be put together fast to rescue Stephen Pollard and his superb team. It is not so long since you electrified the election with the Chief Rabbi’s article!
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My article on the fiasco of Olaf Scholz’s Chancellorship in today’s Daily Telegraph (paywall) telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05…
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In this Telegraph film I argue that the not only Eastern Europe but also the West will never be secure as long as Putin controls the Kremlin.
Should the West aim for regime change in 🇷🇺?
My latest @Telegraph short film investigates whether Putin should (or can) be removed from power, featuring Tsar Nicholas II, Gorbachev, @MarkGaleotti, and @DanBJohnson.
telegraph.co.uk/news/0/west-…
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Boris Johnson should honour those who defend Western civilisation — now thearticle.com/boris-johnson…
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In the summer of 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Parliament took a recess of just two weeks. Why do they need two months now? It took a few days to replace Chamberlain with Churchill. Why do the Tories need six weeks now? Voters have sent a message marked: “Action this day.”
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It isn’t Louise Ellman who should have resigned from Labour. It is Jeremy Corbyn thearticle.com/it-isnt-louis…
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Should Michael Gove own a book by David Irving? thearticle.com/should-michae…
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David Amess and the courage to be a Catholic thearticle.com/david-amess-a…
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In The Times Sathnam Sanghera claims that Rishi Sunak’s leadership campaign is “a clear illustration of how white privilege works”. I disagree. His victory is, rather, an illustration of how open British society must actually be to have made him our youngest PM since 1812
Rishi Sunak and the politics of envy thearticle.com/rishi-sunak-a…
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What really went on at Boris Johnson’s Spectator lunches thearticle.com/what-really-w…
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“The Russians are losing their war on Ukraine,” I wrote in the Telegraph last Sunday. “They just don’t know it yet.” Picked up by The Week below:
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I have two articles in the May issue of The Critic. One compares the role of Putin’s chief of staff Gerasimov with that of Hitler’s generals such as Manstein and especially Guderian. The other is a review of Straits, the brilliant biography of Magellan by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Our May issue is on the newsstands later this week but subscribers already have it thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.…
Contributors include Jonathan Meades @RobDotHutton Lisa Hilton @jameskirkup @DArcyTiP @DanBJohnson @WalkerMarcus @djtaylorwriter @HannahJBetts @patrick_kidd @john_self
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My review of Noel Malcolm’s highly original and fiercely intelligent new book: Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…
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Paul Johnson, 1928–2023 - Andrew Roberts, Commentary Magazine commentary.org/articles/andr…
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Hamas is engaged in a genocidal war. Israel has the right to defend itself thearticle.com/hamas-is-enga…
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A tribute to Jonathan Sacks, my friend and teacher
Jonathan Sacks had titles and honours enough, but the prize that mattered was that intangible one first articulated by Isaiah: to be a light unto the nations – @DanBJohnson thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem…
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The well-known German journalist Peter Littger picks up on talk in his country about “the British virus” and quotes me in TheArticle on how even Angela Merkel (a physicist) has used the phrase: thearticle.com/the-british-v…
Großer sprachlicher Quatsch – den auch die Bundeskanzlerin aktiv verbreitet: „Das britische Virus“ existiert nicht. Warum, erkläre ich @ntvde @ntvde_Politik
@RegSprecher 🙏 @DanBJohnson
#corona #britbashing n-tv.de/politik/Das-britisch…
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Why did central banks get inflation so wrong? thearticle.com/why-did-centr…
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Hi everybody! After a three-year interval, I am back on Twitter. I hope my friends, old and new, will get in touch - and read Standpoint!
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If Boris wants to make history, he needs historians at his side thearticle.com/if-boris-want…
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Even Brussels believes in Brexit now. But can Boris still be stopped? thearticle.com/even-brussels…
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Universities need more intellectual and political diversity, as well as in class and race thearticle.com/universities-…
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From Iowa to Washington, this is an extraordinary week for America thearticle.com/from-iowa-to-…
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My Leading Article today is a defence of the humanities. Maths and economics graduates earn more, but subjects like classics and history still matter. So ancient universities such as Oxford should go on teaching Homer in Greek, not patronise state school pupils by dumbing down
Why Oxford dons who want to downgrade Homer and Virgil are deluded thearticle.com/why-oxford-do…
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My review in The New Criterion of a new biography of Richard Sorge, the spy who convinced both Germans and Japanese to trust him, when he was really the greatest of Soviet agents. His intelligence enabled Stalin to move Siberian troops in time to save Moscow and win the war.
Richard Sorge, however, was not just a real-life James Bond—he was much more important than that.
bit.ly/2xK6MFb @BloomsburyBooks @DanBJohnson
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The Longest Day of the Year thearticle.com/the-longest-d…. It isn’t often that TheArticle publishes fiction. But this short story by @ShalnevaE is a powerful début by an outstanding writer who has already proved herself as a critic. Proud to give @ShalnevaE a platform for a new career!
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Please come to hear Tim Garton Ash give the 2022/23 Angermion Lecture, “From Post-Cold War Europe to Post-Wall Europe”, on January 24. Amazingly, the most important Anglo-German cultural event of the year is free to all!
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The lesson of Ukraine? If we give Zelensky the tools, he will finish the job thearticle.com/the-lesson-of…
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Distinguished commentator on television and other media gives TheArticle the thumbs up for breadth and balance of opinion. Escape the online echo chambers and join us — membership is still free!
One of the things I most admire about @TweetTheArticle is the range of subjects and political opinions it represents. It's always a good test of any publication/website: Do they cover the waterfront? Declaration of interest: I am a regular contributor.
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Was Carrie Symonds behind the Night of the Long Stilettos? thearticle.com/was-carrie-sy…
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My Off Script podcast with the Telegraph’s Steven Edginton: we talked about how Europe’s handling the war in Ukraine, Russia and much more… itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/…
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My farewell to the EU — and 300th leading article for TheArticle!
Brexit Day: parting is such sweet sorrow thearticle.com/brexit-day-pa…
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Is the case of Priti Patel about bullying, prejudice or the culture of Whitehall? thearticle.com/is-the-case-o…
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The Chinese agent, the Labour MP and the pollution of British public life thearticle.com/the-chinese-a…
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Denouncing the dead is easy, but it does nothing for living slaves thearticle.com/denouncing-th…
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Sadiq Khan and the decline of London thearticle.com/sadiq-khan-an…
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If you are in Norfolk today, please come to discuss the National Trust at Houghton Hall, 6-8 pm (£5 entry). I shall be in conversation with Zewditu Gebreyohanes, director of Restore Trust, about how we can stop the Woke capture of the world’s largest owner of historic properties
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For Queen and country, not to mention himself, Boris needs time off to recover thearticle.com/for-queen-and…
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Beware the blackmailer in the Kremlin thearticle.com/beware-the-bl…
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The political suppression of academic freedom is no right-wing myth thearticle.com/the-political…
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Galtieri the sea cat: Ecce Magna Felis thearticle.com/galtieri-the-…
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The cost of speaking your mind thearticle.com/the-cost-of-s…
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Has Putin turned the clock back — or is he running out of time? thearticle.com/has-putin-tur…
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Mark Ronan is a fine critic and I trust him to report accurately on the audience reception. Sorry that you feel that you’ve been misrepresented, but you don’t need to bring race into it. You are evidently a great performer and it’s good to hear that you’re so much in demand.
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This is a great chance to build on the success you had as deputy editor of TheArticle. When I joined the Telegraph in 1986, I was in awe of your grandfather. When I returned 8 years later, your uncle was the Utley in residence. But you have it in you to be the best of them all!
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I have chosen a few favourite books published this year and written about them for the online platform Mosaic.
The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I) - mosaicmagazine.com/observati…
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Why Germany mourned our British queen thecritic.co.uk/issues/novem…
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The Irish cause is dear to Joe Biden — but this is 2021, not 1921 thearticle.com/the-irish-cau…
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‘Leopoldstadt’: Tom Stoppard’s last play (but his first tragedy) is a triumph thearticle.com/leopoldstadt-…
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How I discovered classical music thecritic.co.uk/how-i-discov…
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Professor Nigel Biggar reviews James Mumford’s ‘Vexed:Ethics Beyond Political Tribes’for TheArticle. He argues that moral imagination is not enough to overcome our polarisation — we need a spiritual revolution
Why we need a revolution of the spirit to overcome polarisation thearticle.com/why-we-need-a…
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“I arrived just in time to make history”: my role in the fall of the Berlin Wall
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My Non-Fiction Books of the Year for ‘The Critic’. Laurels go to: Antonia Fraser, Laura Freeman, Andrew Roberts, Robin Lane Fox, Jonathan Sumption, David Ekserdjian, Piers Paul Read, Michael Frayn, Timothy Garton Ash, Matthew Goodwin and Richard Cockett thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem…
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A moving tribute to the Queen by an American: my friend Joe Loconte, biographer of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, Locke scholar and man of letters.
#Queen’s Speech: My essay about Queen Elizabeth II's inspiring speech, rooted in history and backed up by a life of duty, faith, and moral purpose: nationalreview.com/2020/04/c…
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The Chief Rabbi is right to denounce Jeremy Corbyn — but why has it been left to him? thearticle.com/the-chief-rab…
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Sir Max Hastings thinks the old are a ‘dead weight’ on the NHS. Here’s why he’s wrong thearticle.com/sir-max-hasti…
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My report on Nigel Lawson’s memorial service in Westminster today: “In postwar Britain, few people have had more impact, or done more good, than Nigel Lawson.” (Rishi Sunak in his tribute) telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10…
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My contribution is an essay on the late Gertrude Himmelfarb
Contributors include David Starkey, @toadmeister, @Miriamelia1, @TitaniaMcGrath, @bindelj, @WalkerMarcus, @DanBJohnson, @DouglasKMurray, @PaddyCGalbraith, @PatPorter76 @ollywiseman, @NickCohen4, @annemcelvoy, @HannahJBetts, @NLebrecht
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Bubbles are a blessing for all grandparents — so why exclude couples? thearticle.com/bubbles-are-a…
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