“Lord, make me chaste – but not yet,” St Augustine famously said, as he sought to postpone his appointment with Christ’s demanding moral code. Much the same can be said…
Nick Wood

Nick Wood
Nick Wood is chairman of Media Intelligence Partners Ltd. He was formerly communications director of the Conservative Party and chief political correspondent of The Times.
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Will British general election campaigns ever be the same again after the Covid-19 pandemic? And will the Conservatives be the long-term beneficiaries of the crisis? Since time immemorial, Labour’s strongest…
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Europe
Boris should wake up to the fact that the world is a dangerous place
by Nick Woodby Nick WoodBack in the days of our imperial splendour, Prime Minister Palmerston summed up British foreign policy as well as anyone. “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual…
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As a small boy, Boris Johnson confided to his sister that his ambition in life was to be “world king”. Global domination may still be a distant prospect for the…