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The calamitous history of America’s wars of choice. As Trump’s disastrous war against Iran continues to grind on, it might benefit the incoming class of Democratic policymakers who seem poised to take ...

If any ongoing TV series has captured the question “Was the Cold War ever over?”, it must be Slow Horses. Jackson Lamb, ...

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In a groundbreaking breakthrough, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has successfully decrypted the long-unbreakable 1952 ...

An ordinary farmhouse outside St Andrews hides a tunnel descending towards a command centre built 100ft beneath the Fife countryside. In Edinburgh, another labyrinth lies buried beneath Corstorphine ...

Revelations that MI5 spied on Nye Bevan, Labour’s post-war health secretary, for most of his parliamentary career will shock many in the party. But they shouldn’t.

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