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Because the British are geniuses at naming their warships. Even the names sound hard and scary. The Americans, for example, have USS Gerald R. Ford. Boring. The British have HMS Agamemnon. The first Royal Navy HMS Agamemnon was Nelson's favourite ship. So it's an apt name for the Royal Navy's...

King Charles III - Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces - has launched the newest Royal Navy warship into service. At Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, His Majesty launched HMS Agamemnon, the sixth of seven of the Royal Navy's powerful and hi-tech Astute-class nuclear...

Drone footage shows British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and British destroyer HMS Dauntless in the Bay of Naples off southern Italy. The two are amongst the most powerful warships in the world. The Prince of Wales can carry up to 65 aircraft of varying types and is currently bristling...

Britain arms her ally Ukraine to the teeth Britain gifts 99 AS-90 howitzers to Ukraine As well as a Terrahawk drone killer, it's also been revealed - through a Freedom of Information request from a British citizen - that Britain has given all 99 of her remaining AS-90 self-propelled...

Ukraine’s air defences just got a major boost with the deployment of Britain's Terrahawk Paladin, a cutting-edge counter-drone and short-range air defence system. Now operational with Ukraine's 156th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, the Paladin combines mobility, AI-powered targetting and a 30mm...

Good Charlotte - "Fairytale of New York" (2025) Hailing from Waldorf, Maryland, the rockers have covered the massive 1987 Christmas hit by British band The Pogues...

The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink" (1968) The Scaffold were a British comedy band consisting of Roger McGough - a poet and children's author I was a fan of as a kid - comedian and entertainer John Gorman, who co-presented the children's show "Tiswas" from 1978 to 1981, and musician and photographer...

Jona Lewie - "Stop The Cavalry" (1980) The Southampton singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist scored a UK Christmas No3 hit with this emotional song about a young British soldier who, understandably, wanted to leave the bitter cold of his trench and enemy shellfire to spend Christmas with...

The Pogues - "Fairytale of New York" (1987) It's that time of year and I'm going to have to do it again. In 1987 - the year Margaret Thatcher won a third consecutive British General Election and Coventry City won the FA Cup - the London Celtic punk rockers teamed up with the London songstress...

I don't drink much rum - I'm more of a beer man - but I'm quite partial to a few glasses of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum on these bone-chillingly cold British winter nights. It certainly helps to warm me up after spending hours working in a freezing cold warehouse. A few years ago I found an old...

The Rasmus - "Banksy" (2025) The new single from the Finnish rockers which pays tribute to the anonymous British street artist known only as Banksy. Banksy's works have been inspirations for the band...

Have you got any of that rum left? If so, send me some.

Alestorm - "Hyperion Omniriff" (2025) The new single from the Scottish pirate rockers...

Since cementing his place in rock's hall of fame, for his role as lead guitarist and songwriter in one of Britain’s biggest ever bands, Queen, Sir Brian May has also completed a PhD in astrophysics. And he has now helped put together what's being described as the first ever book to explore the...

CONCACAF 2026 World Cup qualifier Jamaica 0-0 Curaçao Independence Stadium, Kingston Curaçao, with a population of only 156,000, has become the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup, after a 0-0 draw with Jamaica. Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean, isn't even a sovereign...

British tell Russians: "We see you. We know what you're doing." A Russian spy ship has used lasers for what is believed to be the first time to disrupt RAF pilots tracking its activity in UK waters. The vessel called the Yantar was north of Scotland and had entered UK waters for the second time...

My mistake: Tim Rice-Oxley plays the synthesisers in Keane, so he plays the synthesisers in this song.

Andy Bell ft Tim Rice-Oxley - "The Chance Won't Come Again" (2025) Andy Bell, lead singer of London electropoppers Erasure - famous for big hits in the 80s - and Tim Rice-Oxley, lead singer of rockers Keane, who are from Battle, East Sussex (where the Normans arrived from Normandy in 1066 to...

Mel C - "Sweat" (2025) The brand new single from the 51-year-old former Spice Girl (remember them?) New album "Sweat" is released 1st May 2026...

Dragonforce ft Alyssa White-Gluz - "Burning Heart" (2025) The fivesome London power metal band collaborated with the Canadian heavy metal singer for their latest single...