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and a butterfly-collecting businessman offered the British government better intelligence on the horrifying rise of the Nazis than anyone else

Expertise is denigrated

whereas Putin’s “tame historians” still – “disgustingly” – maintain that it was merely a natural disaster

Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East

unified the Commonwealth

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