How Alex Salmond’s Alba Party reveals England and Scotland’s shared ideals
The values traced by the English back to Magna Carta and by the Scots to the Declaration of Arbroath were merging even before the 1707 Union.
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Tom Holland: Magna Carta was forged from royal failure
No coincidence that the most celebrated of all the waymarks on the road to freedom under the law was…
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The Fontanelle ossuary: in Naples’ stacks of skulls, all men are equal
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Tom Holland: We must not deny the religious roots of Islamic State
Its jihadis call for a global caliphate. So why deny religion drives Isis?
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