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...reached some sort of accommodation with the Nazis? We might have held on to our empire while the Nazis and the reds engaged in a struggle that would have weakened them both.
Yesterdays Sunday Papers came with a grim reading for Sunak and The Tories with a new survey predicting Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour Party are set for a massive majority of 416 leaving the... ...
The French have always been a volatile bunch so the reaction to whatever the result the elections bring is uncertain. Has Macron been too hasty in calling what could prove to be a very ill-timed... ...
Not that the English, Welsh or N. Ireland members of AB will be really interested but I'm absolutely delighted by today's news. Douglas Ross (dross) has announced he will resign as leader of the... ...
//An appeal has been launched for O blood-type donors to book appointments across the country following the ransomware attack affecting major London hospitals. NHS Blood and Transplant is appealing... ...
//Barclays bank branches across the UK have been covered in red paint and had windows smashed as part of protests by a pro-Palestine group. Up to 20 buildings across England and Scotland have been... ...
So a lovingly restored 1938 underground train which was due to travel down the Piccadilly line yesterday has been vandalised. Does this give the perpetrators some sort of twisted pleasure? Words... ...
...which caused distress to so many of our people? I'm thinking of the D Day commemorations. Perhaps a man who might fail Norman Tebbit's 'cricket test' isn't fully aware of our sensibilities when... ...
Just stop mentioning the last 14 years please. We all know how bad it was but it's gone now. Yes, some people are still suffering but it's all behind us. Give us another 5 years and we'll show you... ...
Exit polls suggest as predicted, things are moving to the Right. In Germany it seems the so called, "far Right" AfD are making significant gains. Will this happen across the whole of the EU ? I... ...
... they're dealing with basic communication skills and toilet training. In one school at the start of Reception, eight of 27 four-year-olds came to school in nappies, and in one instance a six... ...
//Unite, Labour's biggest trade union backer, has refused to endorse the party's general election manifesto, saying it does not go far enough on protecting workers' rights and jobs in the oil and... ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o Ander's picture is one of the most famous ever taken. At the time Jim Lovell said "we went to the moon..and we discovered the Earth" ...
It's emerged tonight on Newsnight that the reason Sunak left the D-Day commemorations early - leaving Lord Cameron to be photographed in the leaders' line up and Keir Starmer to meet Zelensky - ... ...
//Russian hackers are behind the cyber attack on a number of major London hospitals, according to the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre. Ciaran Martin told BBC Radio 4's... ...