Calls for service of thanksgiving for last Battle of Britain pilot John 'Paddy' Hemingway and other heroes of 'The Few' after his death aged 105 as Prince William leads moving tributes

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Former military chiefs Lord West and Lord Dannatt lead calls to honour 'The Few' to 'remind new generations of the time when a handful of very brave men stepped up to the mark'.

John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last Battle of Britain pilot, dies aged 105

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The pilot, whose squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft in an 11-day period in 1940, called himself the ‘lucky Irishman’

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John “Paddy” Hemingway, has died aged…

Last Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105: John 'Paddy' Hemingway was shot down four times and survived a plane crash. Now tributes pour in as his death draws to a close our 'finest hour'

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In 1940, John 'Paddy' Hemingway was one of that extraordinary band of brothers who were all that stood between Britain and enemy invasion during what Winston Churchill called our 'finest hour'.

The little-known Gullah Geechee politician who pushed for the 14th amendment

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As Trump tries to revoke birthright citizenship, a civic group looks to the Black lawmaker who helped establish it

After Donald Trump issued an executive order to limit birthright citizenship last mon…

‘She kept pushing the boundaries’: Paule Vézelay, the British abstract pioneer who found fame in interwar Paris

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A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of the maverick British artist beloved by Miro, Hemingway and Mondrian, who had to flee to Paris to realise her true artistic vision

Whichever art histori…

Hisham Matar: ‘I learned English by listening to Jane Austen audiobooks’

found 2025 › Jan › 17 (Fri) @ 11:02 UTC

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The British-Libyan author on Hemingway’s craft, finding comfort in Joseph Conrad, and spending six months drowning in Austen

My earliest reading memory
From as far back as I can remember, before I coul…

Why the Black American origins of mac and cheese are so hotly debated

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In an era punctuated with persistent loss, our culinary rituals are a scrumptious bridge

It stood on my kitchen bookshelf, Sylvia’s Family Soul Food Cookbook: From Hemingway, South Carolina, to Harlem…

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – what happens when we die

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 10:34 UTC

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The Nobel prize winner pushes at the veil between this world and the next in the immersive tale of a solitary fisherman

How should one write about death – not as experienced by those who merely witnes…