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Game�s up for the soapbox

Leo McKinstry — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Politics is riddled with sporting clich�s. Yet often the metaphors they use are tired, unimaginative, or just not the right ones for the occasion.

The revenger�s tragedy

Leo McKinstry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:57 GMT

The British government has long denied that wartime air raids on German cities were intended to kill as many civilians as possible. In fact, the raids, led by Arthur Harris, were motivated largely by a desire to hit back and destroy indiscriminately

Quango pickle

Leo McKinstry — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:19:24 GMT

Observations on housing

Beware the clunking fist

Leo McKinstry — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:10:28 GMT

Ignore the conventional wisdom. The combination of an improving economy and Gordon Brown�s sheer bloody-minded determination could yet deliver a fourth term for Labour

Back on the terror trail

Leo McKinstry — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:28:44 GMT

The republican killers of three security service men in Northern Ireland represent nothing but their own bigotry, writes Leo McKinstry

The age of Blairjorism

Leo McKinstry — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Hesitant on Europe, beset by scandals, too fond of stunts, Blair and Major are twins

Max Clifford is a nice chap shock!

Leo McKinstry — Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Edwina Currie once called him "that little turd", but Britain's most notorious publicist struck Leo McKinstryas a man of integrity and even modesty