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Introduced in 1973 as the replacement for the hugely successful 1100/1300 range the Austin Allegro is possibly unique in the car world - because I can think of no other car which was worse than the car it replaced in almost every respect. To be fair, the "All aggro" had a very hard act to follow in the classic Issigonis designed ADO16 and it wasn't the fault of the car that the launch was mor...

Well, yes and no. LABOUR’S new 50% tax on high earners will leave Britain with the highest income-tax rates in the G8, just a year after the UK had the second lowest in the influential grouping. It will have the joint highest personal tax alongside Japan among the world’s leading economies. Marginal tax rates are

At the ASI. Or, if you prefer, economic liberty, the world’s greatest contraceptive.

The artworks adorning the walls of ambassadors' residences around the world have revealed an insight into the diplomatic pecking order.

Clarkson on the BA strike: I like Virgin. And I flew Singapore Airlines recently, which was out of this world. But there is nothing quite so joyous as leaving the hustle and bustle of a superheated Third World hellhole and being greeted on the big BA jumbo by a homosexual with a cold flannel and a refreshing glass of champagne. Take that away from us and we may as well all be Belgian. Fuckin' A!

Either that, or a slightly odd choice of verb from the Telegraph today: South Africa has hired extra shark spotters to patrol beaches to ensure that football fans are not attacked during the World Cup. Patrols have been strengthened along South Africa's coastline amid fears Great Whites could target foreign tourists during the event. ..."target foreign tourists"?

I never saw this, but it seems like an intriguing project: The dilemma that faces historians and other chroniclers of World War II is, obviously, that the World War II generation is passing very quickly. First person narratives and eyewitness experience aren't the only ways to approach either history or political science, but they can be quite important. At the same time, the massive volume o...

BILLY WOLFE fought for Britain in the Second World War before going on to lead the SNP to its greatest electoral success at Westminster.

Governments attending the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have rejected an EU-backed proposal to ban trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna to give the species time to reproduce.