Latest articles by Robert Chesshyre
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Hear it for Jimmy Greaves before auction hammer falls
In Depth Football hero auctions his World Cup medal to raise £50,000 - half what he’d earn in a week today
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Question for Theresa May: what's so great about Great and Good?
In Depth Theresa May needs to look outside the ‘magic circle’ to appoint a suitable chair for child abuse inquiry
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Barack Obama: How ‘Yes we can’ turned to ‘Sorry we couldn’t’
In Depth With the midterms comes the reckoning for a man who appeared to have it all, but failed to deliver
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Ed Miliband: The disaster is he never got a life
In Depth Sadly, unless the men in white coats (or M&S suits) come for Miliband, it is too late to change leaders
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Ryder Cup victory shows what good Europeans we really are
In Depth Don’t forget, the European team was formed because UK alone could not amass the talent to beat USA
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Miliband’s mansion tax will destroy London communities
In Depth Already lawyers and bankers are taking over London neighbourhoods: this will make it easier for them
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Rupert Murdoch, the Great Meddler, is back in business
In Depth Is Murdoch, attracted by power rather than party politics, set to play king-maker in Scotland?
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Shark attack: Will Self goes for 'mediocre' George Orwell
In Depth Self, a notorious purveyor of obtuse English, attacks the master of clarity for – yes – his clarity
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From Rotherham to Eton: democracy lets us all down
In Depth The lack of social mobility in Britain and the shock findings in Rotherham have something in common
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Cliff Richard: renewed questions about media and the police
In Depth Why did police not warn singer of their raid - and why did BBC feel it was justified to embarrass him?
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Mo Farah’s ‘terrifying collapse’: tell me about it
In Depth Our columnist may not be as quick as Mo: but he can compete when it comes to midnight mysteries
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Hello Again to All That: or is it time to move on from WWI?
In Depth There is a whiff of ‘war porn’ about the footage of wretched men staggering towards machine-guns
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Characterless peas in a pod: the reshuffle of the bland
In Depth Few politicians today have had real, demanding jobs before entering politics – and it shows
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Butler-Sloss and Patten? Are there no better candidates?
In Depth Establishment should look beyond its circle and appoint more credible and younger people to these roles
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Oh Andy Murray! Just when we’d begun to understand you
In Depth Murray Mound has already been changed back to Henman Hill: it was always Tim they really loved
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Britain must take on Farage or risk irreversible change
In Depth Our political leaders, elected to provide wise counsel, are instead running around like headless chickens
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Max Clifford: downfall of Grub Street’s ultimate sleazeball
In Depth More than the story of one man’s hypocrisy: it’s another dagger-blow to Britain’s tabloid culture
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Moyes sacking was act of mercy - and God help his successor
In Depth Inheriting an ageing squad and not enough cash, David Moyes had been handed a poisoned chalice
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New message needed for police: you can run - but you can't hide
In Depth HMIC report backs up public evidence: the more we meet the police, the less we trust them
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My day with Tony Benn: baked beans, tea and sympathy
In Depth Tony Benn was a man who dined modestly – and never came to terms with his first-class status
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Stephen Lawrence’s father is right to be wary of new inquiry
In Depth It’s not just undercover culture that needs investigating – but the sheer size of the overblown Met
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Mark Duggan inquest: police must regain the public’s trust
In Depth 30 years ago the public would have had no problem believing the police version of events. Not any more
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New Addington: the benighted estate Tia Sharp called home
In Depth It was meant to be a 1930s 'garden estate' – today it is as deprived as many inner city communities
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