Bernard Porter
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If people are what they eat, Winston Churchill was plain cooking, whisky, champagne and the best Havana cigar smoke; and all that these might be taken to imply. Published December 19 2011
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Bernard Porter reviews Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's account of the violence that accompanied Britain's decolonisation after the Second World War. Published October 12 2011
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A mid-Victorian competition to design new Government Offices in Whitehall fell victim to a battle between the competing styles of Gothic and Classical. The result proved unworthy of a nation then at its imperial zenith, as Bernard Porter explains. Published June 23 2011
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Bernard Porter reviews two books on empire and colonialism. Published January 19 2011
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Bernard Porter reviews the field of studies of British covert operations and espionage. Published December 14 2009
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Bernard Porter says that today’s advocates of humanitarian intervention would do well to ponder what J. A. Hobson and Ramsay MacDonald had to say a century ago about the dangers of liberal imperialism.
Published September 18 2007
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Bernard Porter argues that history and patriotism should be kept firmly apart.
Published June 20 2006
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Bernard Porter is unconvinced by American denials of a new imperialism and finds comparisons – as well as important differences – with the British experience. Published February 16 2005
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Bernard Porter argues that, through most of the nineteenth century, most Britons knew little and cared less about the spread of the Empire.
Published September 22 2004
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Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now. Published October 20 2003
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Bernard Porter argues that the 'End of Empire' unravelled British domestic politics as well as her international outlook. Published August 31 1996
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Bernard Porter looks at the Victorian capitalist who made his fortune from dealing in weapons of war and constructed a Northumberland haven with the proceeds.
Published January 1 1995
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Published January 1 1992
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Published November 1 1991
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Bernard Porter on espionage, past and present. Published October 9 1989
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