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39. Drawing Us Together While Pulling Us Apart (12 April 2020)
40. The Time To Act Is Now (25 April 2020)
41. Time to relax? – please think hard! (18 May 2020)
42. Move On, Nothing To See Here (2 June 2020)
43. Playing Russian Roulette With The Nation’s Future (25 July 2020)
44. The Deadly Sea (28 August 2020)
45. Britannia waives the rules, but only in a limited and specific way (12 Sept 2020)
46. Of starship captains, fishing and small dogs (3 October 2020)
47. High Hearts and Complete Confidence – Really? (19 October 2020)
48. Transatlantic Tango (28 October 2020)
49. Billy No-Mates (12 November 2020)
50. So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (29 November 2020)
51. The Clock Is No Longer Ticking (25 December 2020)
52. Giving Up What You Have For Something You Never Lost (3 January 2021)
53. When Project Fear Became Project Reality (11 January 2021)
54. Kicking at an open goal and missing (18 January 2021)
55. We Don’t Want To Spoil You, Mr Ambassador! (24 January 2021)
56. A Touch of Frost (27 February 2021)
57. No Way To Start A Trade War (13 March 2021)
58. A Vacuum Of integrity (25 April 2021)
59. Election, What Election? (4 May 2021)
60. As the Dust Settles (24 May 2021)
61. Not A Sausage (20 June 2021)
62. Playing football with our freedoms (12 July 2021)
63. Enduring Freedom (30 August 2021)
64. We Need To Talk About TIGRR (20 September 2021)
65. Build Back Beaver (9 October 2021)
66. Tory Sleaze Is Back (Did It Ever Go Away?) (4 November 2021)
67. Blah Blah Blah (17 November 2021)
68. Owen Paterson’s Enduring Gift to the Nation (19 December 2021)
69. The Night Before Christmas – A Year On (24 December 2021)
70. Time To Go, Big Dog (16 January 2022)
71. Brexit Opportunities Abound (13 February 2022)
72. A Faux Pas Too Far (20 March 2022)
73. Are you still here, BJ? (20 April 2022)
74. Is there still such a thing as a local election? (8 May 2022)
75. Echoes Of Empire? (5 June 2022)
76. A Big Dog Wounded Beyond Repair (12 June 2022)
77. From That Dark Day To The Present (23 June 2022)
78. Has Devon Dealt A Deadly Blow? (26 June 2022)
79. Leave Means Leave (7 July 2022)
80. In Truss We Trust? (22 July 2022)
81. Measurement Madness – No Thanks! (21 August 2022)
82. Letter to a Labour MP: Fair Voting is Long Overdue (29 August 2022)
83. Letter to the New Prime Minister (5 September 2022)
84. Maitlis is Merciless (7 September 2022)
85. Gross, Gross, Gross (16 October 2022)
86. A Bonfire Too Many (15 November 2022)
87. Making Brexit Work – Fantasy or Deception? (12 December 2022)
88. The Year of the Lettuce (31 December 2022)
89. The Unflipped Chair (26 March 2023)
90. Illegal by name and illegal by nature (30 April 2023)
91. Letter From America (3 August 2023)
92. The Reverse Midas Touch (2 December 2023)
93. Metric is here to stay (29 December 2023
94. 2023 – how was it for you? (31 December 2023)
95. A very muted celebration (12 February 2024)
96. Rwanda ping-pong (20 April 2024)
97. Independence Day draws near (7 June 2024)
98. Eight years on – have we learned anything? (23 June 2024)
99. Europe comes to Blenheim (25 July 2024)
100. Remember remember the fifth of November (2 November 2024)
101. A bully in a China shop (8 April 2025)
102. Councils of perfection – alas not this time (4 May 2025)
103. Of course we want to carry on (10 September 2025)
104. Oxford is a European city, now more than ever (17 November 2025)