Leo McKinstry
Articles by Leo McKinstry
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Sport
Game’s up for the soapbox
- 27 June 2011
Politics is riddled with sporting clichés. Yet often the metaphors they use are tired, unimaginative, or just not the right ones for the occasion.
Europe
The revenger’s tragedy
- 17 December 2009
- 10 comments
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
UK Politics
Beware the clunking fist
- 28 May 2009
- 1 comment
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
UK Politics
Back on the terror trail
- 12 March 2009
The republican killers of three security service men in Northern Ireland represent nothing but their own bigotry, writes Leo McKinstry
Politics
The age of Blairjorism
- 26 February 2001
Hesitant on Europe, beset by scandals, too fond of stunts, Blair and Major are twins
Politics
Max Clifford is a nice chap shock!
- 24 April 2000
Edwina Currie once called him "that little turd", but Britain's most notorious publicist struck Leo McKinstryas a man of integrity and even modesty
