Thomas Munson is a British-Irish dual national who has written for ConservativeHome, CapX, and LBC. He previously worked as an aide to two Secretaries of State in the UK Government
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Regional powers at loggerheads. Naval vessels in the east Mediterranean. Allies drawn into the fray with some calling for deescalation. You could be forgiven for thinking I was describing the war in Iran. In fact, these events unfolded during the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. And the path to war during that conflict well over 2,000
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‘They’re tearing this country apart.’ I heard it in a pub last week. A man, with the light blue of the phone screen reflected in his face, was watching a reel. He waved the device at a nearby drinker. ‘You seen this?’ It was footage of the latest wave of small boat crossings. A heated
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‘As if we didn’t have enough to argue about!’ exclaimed the gentleman in front. We were standing just off a busy road adjacent to a looming wall. The road wasn’t any road, and the wall wasn’t any wall. It was Shankill Road, and this was one of Belfast’s infamous peace walls. The man wasn’t picking
