Neville Chamberlain's brave admission: Politician said Britain was better off without him as PM following disastrous start to WWII, letter reveals

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 18:18 UTC

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The beleaguered politician made the painful admission four days after he resigned in May 1940. He quit after a disastrous start in the Second World War.

Second woman is arrested for using wigs to sit British citizenship tests on behalf of 12 paying clients

found 2025 › Feb › 07 (Fri) @ 20:35 UTC

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Immigration officers raided a property in Dartford today and arrested the 42-year-old woman over claims she fraudulently posed as applicants for British citizenship.

The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride review – brilliantly rule-breaking fiction

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 12:08 UTC

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The couple from The Lesser Bohemians return in this innovative tale of two lovers and of London, in all its sadness and grunginess and grandeur

Eimear McBride does extraordinary things with language. …

Offshore wind farm firms are warned not to blow up old bombs found at sea in case they harm fish

found 2025 › Jan › 22 (Wed) @ 07:44 UTC

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The Government said the blasts used to clear unexploded ordnance from the First and Second World Wars can cause 'injury and disturbance to marine species' as well as damaging the seabed.

Britain's heroine lumberJILLS: Unseen pictures show members of the Women's Timber Corps at work during WWII - after they faced down sexist officials to perform vital logging role

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 07:44 UTC

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A trove of unseen images gives a fresh view of some of the 15,000 women who helped provide the timber the country needed during the Second World War.

Despite the eulogies, the postwar order did little for peace – and fuelled the rise of populism | Kenan Malik

found 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 09:55 UTC

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Don’t rush to mourn the end of a liberal international order that too often put order before liberalism

The historian Steven Shapin opened his account of The Scientific Revolution with the line: “Ther…

The WWII prisoner who became a panto dame... and then hated it: Photos show British PoW performing in drag at German camp - but he feared becoming 'typecast' and threatened to go on strike

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 13:30 UTC

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Captain John Dixon was captured at Dunkirk and spent the whole of the Second World War in a PoW camp in Germany. Stage productions were regularly put on by the men to keep up morale.

Sir David Jason: ‘You’ve got to make your audience enjoy it’

found 2024 › Dec › 14 (Sat) @ 20:13 UTC

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The actor, 84, talks about memories of the Blitz, surviving through humour, the inspiration of Ronnie Barker and being knighted by the Queen

Near the end of the Second World War, I must have been abou…