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Why the Tories’ knives are out for Chris Patten
15 November 2012

There's quite a lot of settling old scores going on, says Tristram Hunt.

Politics
Dancing with the Stasi
11 October 2012
Blogs
Cameron's East Germany comparison was absurd and offensive
07 October 2012

The Prime Minister's Tea Party-esque caricatures are a substitute for real debate.

UK Politics
Merchant adventurer
24 January 2008

As he toured China and India, touting Britain as the ultimate capitalist destination, Gordon Brown d

UK Politics
Nothing left for Protestants
06 September 2007

In his earnestness and abstemiousness, the new Prime Minister is drawing on roots deep in the Labour

Books
The road to democracy. The English in the 18th century were not forelock-tugging, Church-and-King types but an adventurous and eclectic people eager to embrace scientific progress and political change. Tristram Hunt on the foundations of the first modern
27 February 2006

A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846

Boyd Hilton Oxford University Press, 784pp

Books
Capital visions. For Thomas De Quincey it was a "labyrinth"; William Cobbett called it "the great wen". Throughout history, Londoners have debated the meaning of their city. Tristram Hunt gets to grips with its seamier side
15 August 2005

Victorian London: the life of a city (1840-1870)

Liza Picard Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 368pp, £20

UK Politics
Why Britain is great
01 August 2005

We're called upon to stand firm and defend our core values. But what are those values? In the 21st c

UK Politics
A revolutionary who won over Victorian liberals
20 September 2004

Asquith, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill all backed proposals to end the landlords' monopoly. So,

International Politics
The rape of the wilderness
31 May 2004

If Europe venerated old cathedrals and Roman ruins, America's great monuments were its mountains and

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