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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…

Tribune News Service · Jun 9, 2022

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 · Jun 8, 2022

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 · Jun 6, 2022

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 · Apr 13, 2022

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 · Apr 2, 2022

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 · Mar 20, 2022

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 · Feb 4, 2022

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 · Jan 21, 2022

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 20, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Jan 19, 2022