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Are we learning the wrong lessons from history?

Can historians influence government policy? Should they? And, if so, what kinds of historical knowledge should they produce?

The Conversation

Andreas Kluth: Merkel will enter history as the Neville Chamberlain of our time

There she was again, six months after exiting the German chancellery. Relaxed but pensive after long walks on blustering Baltic shores listening to "Macbeth" on audiobook, Angela Merkel had so much on her mind, so much she wanted to explain for posterity. But she didn’t come to offer apologies or…

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Shortest-serving Prime Ministers in history as Boris Johnson clings to power

Boris Johnson has narrowly escaped becoming one of the shortest-serving post-war Prime Ministers following a no-confidence vote triggered by the 1922 Committee - but which PMs hold the top spots on the list?

Daily Mirror

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Boris Johnson could be fifth-shortest serving Prime Minister since 1900

Mr Johnson is currently on the 1,048th day of his premiership

Wales Online

Boris Johnson’s tenure as PM: Nearly level with Brown and still behind May

Mr Johnson has also yet to outrun Neville Chamberlain.

The Independent UK

The Tory MPs calling on Boris Johnson to resign – and what they said

Explainer: a full list of the Conservatives who have sent a letter of no confidence, publicly urged the PM to quit or criticised his leadership

The Guardian - UK

Surrendering land is not the same as defeat – if a stronger Ukraine emerges from the ruins

At the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Putin will doubtless claim Russian dominance. But what would victory now look like for Zelenskiy?

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My Park Slope Food Coop conspiracy blues

It's easy to fall into conspiratorial thinking, as I learned when my peers thought I had much more power than I did

Salon

Lie, deny and move on – how much longer will the Johnson mantra plague British politics?

Partygate, bullying ministers, groping MPs and insider lobbying: the Tories have polluted our entire system of government, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights

The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas, Stanley Tucci’s charisma and his current favourite cookbook

The Guardian - UK

Abandoned hotel gutted by fire that killed owner's wife is like 'world without humans'

Bontddu Hall was used as one of the grandest hotels in Wales until 2004, with guests including Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Richard Burton and Sean Connery

Daily Mirror

Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power

David Rintoul is the authoritative narrator of this thriller about the negotiations between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the leadup to the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Munich – The Edge of War: women in historical films are too often unrealistic

In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia so in a bid to avoid war the Four Powers Agreement was signed and Czechoslovakia would surrender its border regions and defences. British…

The Conversation

Europe on the precipice in ‘Munich — Edge of War’

"Munich" would be better grounded — and more timely — if it spent less effort honoring Neville Chamberlain’s noble hopes and more time examining why Chamberlain, Britain and Europe weren’t more awake to the clear and present danger.

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The Independent UK

Review: Europe on the precipice in 'Munich — Edge of War'

With handsome period craft, “Munich — Edge of War” makes for a watchable, engrossing historical thriller with fictional characters situated like spies around political leaders at a profoundly tense, and ultimately woefully misjudged, moment in time, writes Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review

Daily Mirror

'The game is up for Boris Johnson after Christian Wakeford defected to Labour'

David Davis showed the contempt with which Boris Johnson is now held by comparing him to Neville Chamberlain as he called for his resignation, telling him: 'In the name of God, go'

The Independent UK

Johnson likened to Neville Chamberlain as Tory says: ‘In the name of God, go’

David Davis quoted from a speech delivered in the Commons during the Norway Debate.

The Guardian - UK

UK Covid: end to England’s plan B measures next week ‘a milestone, not a finish line’, says Sajid Javid – as it happened

Health secretary confirms face mask mandate and working from home guidance will end in England

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